Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1935, Page 17

Washington News . GLASH DIMS HOPE FOR LEAVE BILLS AT THIS SESSION McKellar Blocks Passage in Senate, Charging Discrimination. COPELAND MAKES REPLY TO ATTACK ON FAIRNESS Tennessean Voices Willingness to Consider Question When Con- gress Reconvenes. BY J. A. O'LEARY. With Congress heading toward ad- Journment tonight or tomorrow, the Government leave bills appear to be definitely sidetracked until January as a result of the opposition of Sen- ator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennes- see, who objected to their considera- tion by unanimous consent in the Benate yesterday afternoon. Bills that seem dead sometimes are | revived in the closing hours of a ses- | sion, but there were no signs today | of such a development on the leave | measures. Speaking on the measure to restore annual leave from 15 to 30 days, as it existed prior to the economy act, Mc- Kellar blocked it on the ground that it would not treat all employes alike. He based his contention chiefiy on the | claim'that about 48,000 field employes | of the Navy Department and Marine | Corps, including per diem workers, would be operating on a 4-day week if | they are included in the pending bill, | because they are now on a 5-day week. | Copeland Makes Final Plea. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, in pleading for passage of the bills, made the following reply to the Tennesseean: “The Senator said that Government employes should be treated alike. I think he misunderstands about the matter of leave to employes. When we say ‘30 days’ leave,’ that does not mean a month off for vacation. Every time they are half an hour late or | take half a day off or an hour off to see the dentist or the doctor, that is “leave’ which is charged against them. Hay BY JOHN JAY DALY. On scheduled time hay fever came to town last night. Bright and early this morning vic- tims of this ailment started sneezing. That is, unless they began taking precautions six weeks ago. Medical authorities agree that it is much more difficult to cure hay fever than it is to prevent it. In this section of the country hay fever usually makes its appearance about the last week of August, so the doctors say. They warn those sus- ceptible to beware of rag-weed, sun- flowers and daisies. From these three plants, pollen car- ried through the air attacks the eyes and nostrils of hay-fever sufferers, and all the king’s horses and all the king's men can do nothing about it until a first-class physician takes a hand in the treatment. Even then | the best results have been only 80 per cent cures out of 1,000 cases. Insects Also Carriers. Insects also are know to carry the germ of hay fever—so the good house- “Mr. President, I think this is a very Just bill. If the Senator from Ten- | nessee is going to use his efforts for- | ever to try to defeat these measures, | 80 far as I am concerned I am going | to use my efforts to have them en-| acted into law.” Senator McKellar reiterated that | he wanted all Federal employes | treated alike and suggested hearings to get the views of all departments. ‘The leave, he said, should be the same in each department and should apply | to all employes. ; “The Senator is very successful in | his efforts,” Copeland responded. “He | is treating them alike. He is depriving | all of them of leave.” The debate ended with McKellar's rejoinder that “the Senator does not understand what he is talking about.” Sick Leave Bill Delayed. The next bill on the calendar was the measure reducing sick leave from 30 to 15 days, and this also was post- poned at McKellar's request without debate. The letter from the department Mc- Kellar placed in the record regarding the employes of the Navy and Marine Corps who are on a five-day week stated that they are paid for 52 Saturdays, 7 legal holidays and 15 days' annual leave. It went on to state that if they are included in the pending bills it would “practically make s four-day work week for them.” McKellar also read letters from the Post Office Department asking that employes of the mail equipment shops be placed on e same basis as other field employes of the postal service in regard to annual and sick leave. The Tennessee Senator said today that when Congress returns in Jan- uary he will be willing to go over the leave question. He said he was not making any promises as to the future, but thought a bill shouid be worked out that would be equal in its appli- cation. On the desk of every member of the United States Senate this morning was a letter from Luther C. Steward and Gertrude M. McNally, president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, urging passage of the sick and annual leave bills. ‘The letter stated: “We urge immediate and favorable action in order that these measures, which mean so much to several hun- dred thousand men and women, may not fail of passage at this session.” E. Claud Babcock, president, Amer- fcan Federation of Government em- ployes, sent the following message to all members of Congress: “Will you not be willing to stay here an hour or two extra so that our leave bills can come up under motion. This will give justice to 350,000 employes and ‘only means a small amount of time to you.” TRIPLE BURIAL HELD FOR CRASH VICTIMS Requiem Mass Chanted for Nuns. Separate Services Conducted for Others Killed. Solemn requiem mass was chanted at the chapel of Holy Cross Academy at 8 o'clock this morning for three nuns killed in an automobile accident on Defense Highway Tuesday. A triple burial ceremony for the sisters, Winifred Jean, Mary Bernard and Frances Gabriel, was held in Mount Olvet Cemetery at 10 am. The two other victims of the wreck were John McCarthy, 626 Quebec place, father of Sisters Helen Bernard and Frances Gabriel, and Miss Wini- fred Slaven, sister of Sister Winifred Jean. Miss Slaven's body was taken to her birthplace, Galesburg, Iil., for burial. Requiem mass for Mr. McCarthy was sung at St. Gabriel's Church at 10 am. His body, too, was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. . wives are warned to get out the vari- ous shotgun equipment and powder blowers in the warfare against house- hold enemies—especially those that roam around the kitchen o’ nights. There are plenty of remedies for hay fever—the first and foremost being travel to sections where the rag- weed and the sunflower and the daisy do not adorn the landscape. For| The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935. Fever on Schedule ONLY THOSE WHO IGNORED PRECAUTIONS SUFFER. Sneezes by the author, and depart, the Chinese offer a solu- tion in their favorite drug—ephredine. Almost all the remedies on the market, according to the medicos, have ephre- dine as a base. It has a tendency to stop the running nostril and the watery eye. One of Washington's leading physi- clans took time off today to dictate & formal statement that should prove of great interest to hay fever victims. It follows: Characteristics Given. “Hay fever is a seasonal disease characterized by the well known symptons, acute coryza and conjunc- tivitis, with or without asthma as a complication. It is produced in sensitized individuals by the inhala- tion of pollen and was the first disease to be definitely attributed to protein sensitization. It is more common in the Fall and at this time of the year. The pollens which more often cause it are ragweed, sun flower and Jaisy. “By what is known as skin testing, the specific pollen may be found which is the cause in the individual case. The preventive treatment of hay fever is better than the curative treatment. It should be begun early in the season. This prophylactus is accomplished by administering at regular intervals small doses of the specific pollen for that individual. The curative treat- ment is helpful, though less efficient and is accomplished by various means. especially by means of a drug known those who cannot pick up their bags| as ephedrine.” RAILROADS GIVEN UNDERPASS ORDER Work on Eighteenth Street Project to Be Finished Within Two Years. Orders for construction of an under- pass for the railroad tracks approxi- mately on the line of Eighteenth street northeast were issued by the District Commissioners today to the Baltimore & Ohio and the Philadel- phia, Baltimore &' Washington Rail- road, a Pennsylvania Railroad sub- sidiary. The work must be finished within two years. This is one of the two projects for vehicular crossings for the railroad tracks north of New York avenue northeast, authorized by an act of the present session of Congress. The other crossing is to be a viaduct to be erected on a line from Breni- wood road and T streets northeast to & point along New York avenue some- where between Fourth street and Mount Olivet road northeast. Orders for the latter will be issued after the Commissioners have made studies for the southern terminus of the viaduct. The direction for progress on the underpass was issued after the Com- missioners had ordered recorded changes in the line of the proposed Montana avenue northeast, which will connect Rhode Island avenue at about Fourteenth street northeast with the intersection of New York and ‘West Virginia avenues and Eighteenth street. The old line suggested for Montana avenue has been swung farther to the east because of grade conditions and to afford a better entrancé to the subway. The Commissioners will take steps soon for the purchase or condemnation of land needed for the realignment of Montana avenue. Eighteenth street will be connected with the new Mon- tana avenue north of the subway so as to afford a direct entrance to the crossing from the north and east without causing traffic to go west as far as Fourteenth street to Montana avenue. The railroads were directed to sub- mit their plans for the underpass within six months. The Commission- ers will pass on these before actual construction can be started. BODY OF MAN DROWNED IN ANACOSTIA IS FOUND Inmate of Blue Plains Heme for Aged and Infirm Tumbles Into River. The body of Harry Walker, 51, in- mate of the Home for the Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains, who was drowned in the Anacostia River op- posite the Navy Yard yesterday after- noon, was recovered early this morn. ing by harbor police. Policemen H. S. Carrico and A. L. Lucas took the body to the Morgue. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald is- sued a certificate of accidental death. Walker and two friends were seated on the sea wall, police said, when ‘Walker accidentally fell into the river, [ - Black Cat Blocks Traffic by Taking Rest on Car Rails Downtown-bound passengers on a Connecticut avenue street car during the rush hour this morn- ing were mystified when the mo- torman, for no apparent reason, stopped the car near Porter street I-n{ began banging his warning bel Traffic began to pile up behind the street car and tooting of au- tomobile horns augmented the noise of the bell. Finally, a fire- man came out of Engine Com- pany No. 28, just south of Porter street, walked out in front of the street car and removed a black cat from the rails. STORM INCREASES TRAFFIC MISHAPS: 25 Accidents Reported in 24 Hours, 12 Receiving Minor Injuries. re were no serious injuries in District traffic accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 am. today. The | heavy rain late yesterday was be- | lieved partly responsible for at least several of 25 accidents in which a total of 12 persons received minor injuries during the period. Lee Hammer, 70, of 1339 Columbia road, whom it was feared had a skull fracture when taken to Emergency Hospital Wednesday after he was re- | ported to have walked into an auto- mobile, was reported improved today | and is expected to recover. 182 Motorists -Arrested. Police arrested a total of 182 mo- torists for traffic violations in the 24- hour period. Of these 31 were for speeding, for reckless driving and 3 for passing red lights. Miss Rachel Norris, 21, of the McReynolds Apartments, was cut on-the wrist late yesterday during the storm and narrowly escaped serious injury when a tree was blown over cn an automobile in which she was riding at Eighteenth and G streets. Horace W. Neilson, 21, of 2700 Rodman street, was parking the car when the tree broke the windshield eand otherwise damaged the machine, police said. Tension Wire Breaks. A high tension wire broke in the 3700 block of Ingomar street during the storm, but was repaired by work- men without further damage. Sewers wetre temporarily blocked by the heavy rain in the Northwest sec- tion and caused delay to automobile traffic between the 4500 and 4800 block of Nebraska avenue. R S aa CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Bingo party, Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and F' streets north- east, 8:30 pm, Daughters of Union Vet- erans of the Civil War, 930 H street northeast, 8 pm, - A “MIGHT-JS-RIGHT" DOCTRINE SCORED BY DR, E. 1. SCOT Secretary of Howard U. Ex- horts Negro Race to Insist on Equal Opportunities. MAKES PLEA AT SESSION OF COLORED ELKS’ GROUP Discloses $49,000 Has Been Pro- vided for Tuition at Univer- sity for 1935-36. ‘The Negro race was exhorted by one of its leaders here today relent- lessly to oppose “the -old idea that ‘might makes right'” and insist on equal opportunities everywhere. Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Howard University, told the colored Elks Educational and Economic Con- gress, meeting in the Garnet-Patter- son Junior High School preliminary to the Elks convention next week, that the “might-right” doctrine was being exemplified currently “as Musso- lini seeks to crush Ethiopia.” “We must everywhere resist this dictum,” he said. Entitled to Opportunities. Declaring his race entitled to all the opportunities in the United States, Dr. Scott said “our perpetual fight must be for a free America, for a spread of the true American principles in every section of our land, and for that security of our republican form of government which was pledged by the founders of the Republic.” The future of the race “is not hope- less,” Dr. Scott told the 150 congress delegates. He demanded that teach- ers of Negro youth “teach the funda- mental principles and issues underly- ing America’s economic and social order.” Disclosing that Howard University and the National Youth Administra- tion were providing 1935-36 tuition and works scholarships worth about | $49,000, Dr. Scott sald greater oppor- tunities for race advancement exist in America “than ever before, and the counsels of optimism and hope should be preached instead of the counsels of pessimism and despair.” Told of Credit Advantages. James A. Jackson, a representative of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, spoke on “The Wall That Keeps Us Out of the Credit World.” He said most colored persons were “woefully ignorant” of the functions of credit men and bureaus and because of this ignorance were unable to secure credit facilities impoftant to their economic advancement. “Another reason which contributes much to our inability to command credit when deserved is that credit men and other white executives of big business have continued to meas- ure the Negro in terms of yester- year,” Jackson said. “Many of them base their judg- ments upon impressions obtained from household servants, the barber shop porter and other menial contacts. They do a grave injustice to the race.” Likewise contributory to the situa- tion, Jackson added, is “the Negro's own lack of frankness, his failure to keep proper records and the too fre- quent neglect to keep his word.” Jackson, incidentally, was a close friend of the late Richard B. Harrison, “de Lawd” of “Green Pastures” fame. They once worked on the same rail- road dining car. Cites Labor Problem. Dr. Robert T. Weaver, adviser on Negro affairs, Department of the In- terior, speaking on “The Economic Status of the Urban Negro,” said un- employment during the depression “had struck colored workers with un- precedented force.” Since members of the race own little of industry, “‘our economic problem is almost exclu- sively a labor problem,” Weaver said. “The day of the small business man with limited capital has passed,” he continued. “With his passing goes the chance for any appreciable de- velopment of Negro business.” Dr. Weaver said there was no racial solution to the Negro's economic problem, but that the only way to develop security for the race was to strive unitedly for improvement of the entire economic system. Understanding Necessary. Lieut. Lawrence A. Oxley, chief of the division of Negro labor, Depart- ment of Labor, told the meeting “we must learn increasingly the value of interracial understanding based on an intelligent appreciation of the values each race contributes to the well- being of the community, State and Nation.” Others who addressed the congress inciuded Dr. William J. Thompkins, District recorder of deeds; James E. Kelley, secretary of the Negro Elks organization; T. Arnold Hill, execu- tive secretary, National Urban League; Dr. Edward F. Harris of the United Drug Co., Cincinnati, and Dr. Sadie Mossell Alexander. The Educational and Economic Congress will hold a civil liberties meeting at 8 pm. today. At that time delegates will discuss incidents in which they feel the race has been publicly discriminated against. Speak- ers will include Harry H. Pace, presi- dent of the Supreme Liberty Life In- surance Co., Chicago; J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler of the Elks; Perry W. Howard, Republican national com- mitteeman from Mississippl, and Mrs. Annie Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Negro Girls. THIEF IS CAUTIOUS Takes Cash Register as Well as Money at Filling Station. Fear that the ringing of the cash register bell might attract attention proved ‘too great for a colored thief early this morning so he made off with the whole works, money drawer, bell and all, when he appeared at a filling station at 625 T street. The register contained about $25, Aloysius Door, manager, told police. Japan’s Population Dense. In relation to cultivable area Japan 1is first in density of population, ¥ Blind Curves Add to ‘Death Highway’ Danger INHIGHWAY FIGHT Defense Highway Demands Pushed—Baltimore-An- napolis Work Cited. Demands for widening of the De- fense Highway to eliminate reverse curves, dangerous grades, overcrowd- ing and all the other ingredients of its many “death traps” grew in vol- ume today as Marylanders living along the road awrkened to the fact that the Baltimore-Annapolis road is being made a four-way boulevard. Believing the State Roads Commis- sion discriminated against them in | building the Baltimore highway first, local residents united to insist that the notorious “death highway" be- tween Washington and Annapolis be widened at once. Inguest Postponed. For years motorists have been killed and maimed on “dead man's curves” and other traacherous spots along the road. The fatalities climaxed in the deaths of three nuns and two of their Bowie Tuesday. The tragedy will be officially investigated at an inquest | before Justice of the Peace Lauis | Gundling at Lanham August 30. Orig- inally scheduled for tonight, it was | postponed by State's Attorney Alan Bowle because of illness in his family. | It was reported in Prince Georges | mission may be spurred into action to eliminate the hazards which were at least partially responsible for the collision, because of fear of a suit for | damages. County attorneys point out | that, although the State itself can- not be sued, the Legislature has granted individuals the right to sue the State Roads Commission. P.-T. A. Aroused. Louis A. Day, leader of the County Parent-Teacher Association, which re- cently obtained an appropriation from the county commissioners to operate a school bus from Lanham to Bladens- burg, said the parents would not want improvements are made to the high- ‘way. “I cannot see why the State should widen the road from Baltimore to Annapolis as long as our children have to travel ‘death highway’ in its present condition,” he said. “We believe the State should not hesitate to spend a million dollars, or whatever it costs, rather than risk the life of a single school child, and we intend to carry our demands to the Governor and Congress if necessary. “The road is so narrow a school bus could not pass a truck or other wide vehicle without dropping off to the dangerous earth shoulders.” The urgency of widening the De- fense Highway is canceded in the 1934 report of the State Roads Commission and listed as one of the highways it hopes to widen with Federal funds. Over 5,000 Cars Daily. “Any highway carrying an average daily traffic in excess of 4,000 vehicles should be more than two lanes,” the report says. It further sets forth that the average traffic between Bladens- burg and Lanham on the Defense Highway is 5813 cars, and between Annapolis and Camp Parole, 5,150 cars. Surveys by the Keystone Automobile Club show that when the tide of mo- torists returning from Maryland beaches reaches its height, 45 minutes is required to travel 3 miles at the Peace Cross bottleneck. This, the club’s engineer, Willlam 8. Canning, contends, conclusively demonstrates the road is not adequate for the de- mands of present-day traffic. State Roads Commission officials hold the road has a capacity of 10,000 cars & day, this being the average figure for two-lane highways, roads being considered filled to capacity when machines two car lengths apart are traveling along them at 35 miles an hour. When allowance is made for curves, grades and other traffic hazards, the capacity of the Defense Highway would be considerably less, it was said at the office of the American Road Builders’ Association. Not Peak Count. The traffic count of 5813 cars be- tween Bladensburg and Lanham, made by the State Roads Commission, did not include peak traffic. In order to get & normal count State roads tabu- lators always avoid unusual condi- tions such as exist on the Defense Highway on Sundays and holidays. Elimination of some of the Sunday congestion around the Bladensburg Peace Cross, a project second in im- portance to the widening of the De- fense Highway in the minds of those who travel that road, is being studied by the Roads Commission in conjunc- proposed RESIDENTS UNTE | relatives in & bus-auto collision near | county that the State Roads Com- | the bus line started unless permanent | 4 - PURRR? - One of the many “dead man's curves” on the Defense highway which Marylanders want eliminated in conjunction with the widening of the road. —Star Staff Photo. To Get Reward TRI-STATE CAPTOR TO RE- CEIVE CHECKS. LIEUT. FLOYD A. TRUSCOTT Of the District detective force, who will receive §1,600 for his part in the arrest more than a year ago | of Arthur Misunas and others of | the dangerous Tri-State gang. Two checks, totaling this sum, were drawn today by the Post Office Department and the District Com- missioners. SUBMAYS SURVEY City Heads Order Request for $25,000 From Con- gress to Study Plans. Funds for an engineering study of the cost and feasibility of a subway system for the District will be sought at the next session of Congress. Corporation Counsel Prettyman was | directed today by the District Commis- sicners to make a favorable report on the bill of Chairman Norton of the | House District Committee for this purpose. An item of $25,000 for the | study has been suggested. Definite opposition to any expendi- | tures for subways, even for engineer- | ing studies, was registered today by | James G. Yaden, president of the | Federation of Citizens’ Associations, in a communication to the Commis- sioners. “Washington is in no position, finan- cially, to construct subways,” he de- clared, “nor is there any necessity for the construction of subways if Washington will do what other cities have done, namely, prohibit the park- ing of automobiles on downtown streets.” o Commissioners Hazen and Sultan sald today they had not yet com- mitted themselves on the subway pro- posal, but that there was so much un- certainty as to cost estimates the sur- vey should be approved. People’s Counsel William A. Roberts has been the leading champion of the subway plan. He believes traffic con- gestion is reaching the point where subways for street-car transportation must be provided in the more down- town areas. The cost would run around $16,000,- 000 for his plans, he believes from re- ports of costs in other cities. He pro- poses a subway approximately under the line of E street from the Capitol to Twenty-second street. Feeder sub- way lines would run up Fourteenth street to a point above Thomas Cir- cle and up Connecticut avenue to a point above Dupont Circle, BRANCH IS APPROVED Gebrgetown Library Building In- spected by Sultan. Final inspection of the new Georgetown Branch Library, Wis- consin avenue and R streets, was made today by Engineer Commis- sioner Dan I. Sultan. He approved the construction and will accept the building for the District. Col. Sultan commended the con- tractor for completing the work exactly on time and declared the building “a beautiful product”. volved were prohibitive. If these ef- forts are successful the Roads Com- mission will have enough money to build & cut-off from the Defense High- way at Decatur Heights to River road, which enters the District of Colum- bia at Kenilworth avenue. The Prince Georges County commis- sioners, Engineer Commissioner Daniel Sultan of the District of Columbia and the Keystone Automobile Club have indorsed this plan. The club estimates the cut-off can be built for $25,000. APPROVAL GIVEN BOARD 10 STuY Society and General PAGE B—1 LOWRENTHOUSING PROJECTS FOR . €. WILL BE MODELS 13-Acre Tract on Benning Road Selected for Col- ored Residents. RECREATION FACILITIES TO BE ONE OF FEATURES Three Developments, Now Under Way Here, to Provide Homes for 1,600 Families. BY NELSON M. SHEPARD. Washington's three low-rent hous- |ing projects for which the Public | Works Administration has allotted a total of $8,100,000, officials said today are aimed at making the National Capital a model of social planning | for the impgovement of living con- ditions among workers of low income. Administrator Ickes’ announcement yesterday that medernly-equipped living units for 323 colored families would be constructed at a cost of $1.- BUDGET REQUESTS |Enlargement of Eastern High School Asked as Hearings End. The Commissioners prepared today to digest and study a wide variety of proposals for improvements and tax plans voiced by civic representatives at the two-day hearings on 1937 budget proposals, which closed late yesterday. These will be considered later, along | wth appropriation requests of District department heads, before the Com- missioners frame their estimates for next year. Their budget proposals will g0 to the Budget Bureau early in the Fall. Enlargement of Eastern High School | is urgently needed because of increas- ing crowding in the school, the city heads were advised by Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast Citizens' Assoctation. He asked also for larger annual | appropriations for work on the Ana- costia flats, an early start on opening of Maryland avenue northeast to the | District line, more funds for the Com- | munity Center program, construction { of & new police court and a new bridge {over the Anacostia to serve the area near the foot of East Capitol street. He also indorsed proposals for replace- ment of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge. Urges Branch Library. Dr. George C. Havenner, speaking for Southeast groups and as a member of the Board of Library Trustees. urged | | funds for a site and plans for a branch library in Anacostia, and an elemen- tary school for the Hillcrest area Dr. Havenner, a former president ciations, opposed suggestions for diver- | revenue purposes and objected | special assessments for street widen- | ing, holding that gasoline tax funds should be used for the purpose. Arthur Hellen, speaking for the | Family Service Association, denounced & suggestion made earlier by Rufus Protective Association that relief by | the District be abolished by the end of this fiscal year. “Absolute chaos would result” he declared. “You can’t end unemploy- ment, sickness and solve the prob- lems of the aged merely by stopping | Telief. Of course. you could stop re- | lief, but what would be the result? | Tt first thing to happen would be that the private relief organizations | would be flooded with applications and a complete breakdown of private relief would ensue. Increase Is Urged. “The proposal is most astounding. It is hard to believe a person of the intelligence of Mr. Lusk could be sin- cere in his suggestion. Instead of an immediate heavy slash in the case ministration, as he proposes, the Com- missioners should seek funds for a more adequate staff. The reason is that as the case work force becomes nearer adequate the amount of chisel- ing on relief is decreased.” M. M. McLean, president of the Brookland Citizens' Association, asked that there be no increase in the realty tax rate and suggested a 1-cent boost in gasoline taxes and a 2 per cent income tax if additional tax revenues are found essential. Leifur Magnusson, representing the Washington Committee on Housing, asked for funds for an increase in the staff of inspectors for the plumbing, health and building inspection di- visions. WIFE FINDS HUSBAND 'DYING OF GAS POISON William J. Lauder Found Uncon- scious With Stove Jets Open. Case Ruled Suicide. Less than an hour after he was found unconscious in the kitchen of his home, William John Lauder, 30, of 11 Pourth street southeast died early today of gas poisoning. 3 He was discovered by his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Lauder, about 12:30 a.m. when she returned from a visit to friends. Three jets on the kitchen stove were open, police said. The fire rescue squad and Casualty Hospital physicians treated Lauder, but to no avail. Lieut. Benjamin C. Kuelling wired Chicago police to notify Lauder's mother, who replied that she doubted the identity and asked for a descrip- tion. She expressed the belief her son was in Richmond, Va. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued s certifi- cate of suicide, | r of the Federation of Citizens' Asso- | sion of the gasoline taxes to general to! S. Lusk of the Washington Taxpayers' | work staff of the District Relief Ad- | 600,000 on Benning road northeast about completes, he said, the housing division’s program for Washington. In keeping with a policy of with- holding information about housing | projects until sites are obtained, his decision to undertake a third develop- ment here was carefully guarded from the public. | The 13-acre site on Benning road, for which Mr. Ickes has ordered the acceptance of bids, is bounded by the proposed extensions of Twenty- fourth street, H and Eye streets. It faces a new colored community and | has the advantages of being in close proximity to a grammer, junior high and vocational school. A new high schools, officials said, is under con- sideration for the area Homes for 1,600 Families. The three housing developments, officials said, will provide homes for approximately 1,600 families at ren- tals comparable to those now being paid for deteriorated houses in cen- | tral Washington. \ The projects will distribute in Wash- | ington a pay roll of $2.615,000 for direct labor at the sites and another pay roll of $2122924 for what is termed indirect labor. some of which will be spent here. Officials estimated that 2,789,049 man hours of labor will be provided in construction. Thet estimate is on the basis of one houx | per man Labor engaged in construction will be paid the “prevailing wage s in Washington for both common and skilled labor. That means ti regular union scale in accordance Wwith P. W. A. regulations. Indirect labor includes employment engagd in the fabrication of materials, architects and transportation. Tied in with the alley clearance program, Kingman Terrace. on Ben- ning road, will provide homes for col- ored tenants forced to move from alley habitations now being demol- ished under act of Congress. The same is true, it was said, of the col- ored project planned for the South- west section in the vicinity of the Washington Barracks. Finding of Homes Problem. One of the big problems of the Dis- | trict Alley Authority is to find suitable | homes for the tenants forced to move | from alley dwellings. This factor, more than anything else, has delayed ‘the alley clearance program in the city. Like the proposed development for white families in Anacostia, approved earlier in the week, Kingman Terrace | will have unusual recreational fea- tures. Only about one.fifth of the | 13-acre tract will be devoted to build- |ings. The remainder of the area will be iandscaped and equipped with park | areas and plavgrounds. All apart- { ments and houses built within the |area will have ample lawns. Designs for Kingman Terrace eall for construction of 92 three-room flats, 21 two-room apartments, 43 three- room apartments and 167 four and five room row houses. Recreational Facilities Planned. ‘The National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Office of National Capital Parks are plan- ning additional recreational facilities for the area. The site also is con- venient to the proposed municipal stadium and National Guard Armory at the end of East Capitol street, bordering Kingman Lake. The Housing Division of P. W. A. already is receiving numerous inquiries from prospective tenants of the three | local developments. Architects have not been engaged as yet, so no definite _information as to actual date of con- struction can be given now. Condem- nation proceedings, the outcome of which are uncertain, will mean a con= siderable delay in the southwest proj- | ect getting under way. The Govern= ment is not facing this handicap, how= ever, with respect to the other two projects and they will be expedited as much as possible. POLICE COURT JURY TIME IS EXTENDED President Also Signs Bill Putting Women on Same Status With Men Called for Service. The law regarding jury service in the District of Columbia was amended today when President Roosevelt signed bills extending the time for service on Police Court juries from 15 to 30 days and putting women citizens on the same status with men. ‘The measures were among four jury | bills suggested by the District Com- missioners. Two failed to pass. ‘The 30-day service is the term now in vogue in District Supreme Court. Up to now service of women om juries has been optional, but the law signed yesterday makes it mandatory on those women not in & long list of exempted classes. The same act pro- vides no pay for jury service shall be given District employes, but provides that salary for their regular work shall continue during the time of serv- ice. Recipients of pensions are no longer exempt from service, 4