Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1935, Page 21

Washington News TRANSIENTS BRING SERIOUS BURDEN T0 LOCAL RELIEF District Anxiously Awaits Closing of Federal Shel- ters Tomorrow Night. OFFICIALS ADOPT PLAN OF WATCHFUL WAITING Increasing Number of Floaters Coming Into City Must Be Cared For. ‘While protests poured in from hun- dreds of mayors, chambers of com- merce, local welfare agencies and other interested groups the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to- day was holding firm to its deugon to close the doors of its transient relief shelters to any applicants ar- riving after midnight tomorrow night. Until some time in November those already enrolled in the shelters in question will be allowed to remain, but newcomers will be thrown en- tirely on the mercy of local relief agencies. Watchful Waiting Policy. 1In the District a policy of watch- ful waiting is being followed by relief officials with more definite plans to be determined after the closing order takes effect and the actual need is seen. Commissioner George E. Allen, now on vacation, is expected to take a hand in shaping this policy when he returns in a few days. As an emergency measure, Elwood Street, director of public welfare, has announced that the Municipal Lodg- ing House may be used to house new transients in cases of distress. Quar- ters for about 40 are available there, far below the requirements if the daily average of about 200 new ar- rivals is to continue. For these men, many of them ‘habitual “knights of the road,” the coming Winter promises to be the toughest since 1932. Monthly Report Issued. Along with this emergency step, taken while police and relief officials Jook with apprehension to the ar- rival pf & large number of uncared- for floaters in the city, Director Street today released his monthly report to the Board of Public Welfare, in which he voiced apprehension over the re- et situation in view of the slowness of development of the works progress program here. : In his report, Street madesthe fol-; Jowing comment: i “Due to the inadequacy of the Fed- | eral grant for August for care of em- ployables and the slowness of Fed- | eral authorities in approving works projects, the public assistance division | wound up August with a deficit of $75,000. This was covered by an ad- vance of this amount from the Dis- trict of Columbia relief funds for September. The grant of $256,000 by the P. E. R. A. for the first half of September was not sufficient to cover that deficiency and meet other ex- penses. “These are difficult and perpiexing times as we try to handle the prob- lem of relief for over 15,000 cases while transferring people as rapidly as possible to the slowly-moving works | progress program. Over 4,500 fami- lies include no employable persons. They represent a continuing load. Supplementary Relief Problem. “In addition to this is the problem | of supplementary relief to people trans- | ferred to the works program, for whom the security wage is not sufficient to cover large family budgets. The F. E. R. A has notified us that their funds are not to be used for supple- mentation and asked us not to use our local funds. This presents a very difficult human problem which must still be solved.” Action as to the general relief problem is being deferred until the return of Commissioner Allen, relief and work relief administrator. For the last half of this month, the F. E. R. A. has granted $200,000, but officials say it will be a close shave if the District can get by with this unless the pending District works projects can be started in much larger number. As to the transient relief problem. Btreet's monthly statement said: | “We are facing difficulties because | Rellef Administrator Hopkins has given public notice that the transient program is to be demobilized by No- vember 1 in the expectation that all transients can be transferred either to the C. C. C. camps or to works projects. It is to be feared that wot all transients out of our daily average of over 3,200 cases will fit into this program. We have been ordered to take no new cases after September 20. “The Transient Advisory Committee held a long meeting August 21, work- ing out proposals looking toward the Teduction of the transient program, which were approved by Commissioner Allen and which have been turned over to the F. E. R. A. for its ap- Driven to Virginia. Effects of the contemplated closing of the transient shelters here already have been noticeable in nearby Vir- ginia. Mrs. Mae E. Jacobs, superin- tendent of relief in Arlington County, sald several unemployed and needy mex from other parts of the country have applied during the past day or 1:“ relief. Most of these, she sald, men who would have been taken into the transient stations in Wash- ington. With no provisions available in Ar- lington County, Mrs. Jacobs said the men were jailed as vagrants. At the same time she issued advice to resi- dents of the colinty not to extend re- lief to these travelers. Federal officials estimate that only 7 per cent of the Nation's so-called transient group are in the “unemploy- able” class. These “unemployables” will be studied by case workers, of- ficials said, and either returned to their homes—where local govern- ments must care for them—or placed in veterans’ homes or similar institu- tions. Transient relief has cost the Gov- ernment approximately $70,000,000 since it was inaugurated in 1933. . he Fpening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1935. Unperturbed at Being Lost “Baby” Tercero, 3 years old and 3 feet tall, phones her mother, Mrs. Jose Tercero, 5331 Nebraska avenue, from the eighth precinct police station, where she was taken today by George Frankel, District Highway Department foreman, aiter he found her wandering alone at Broad Branch road and Thirty-second street. “Baby,"” with brown skin, eyes and hair. christened Margaret Ann, is a pretty little Mexican senorita Her father is chief of the translation and travel division at the Pan-American Union. She was unperturbed at being considered lost and happily ate an ice cream cone supplied by friendly police, clutching a rose in a tiny, damp palm. Pvt. C. C. Brown took her home. —Star Staff Photo. fiaéing of Hendersbn Castle ‘For Apartments Is Indicated g Petitions for Zoning Changes Ask “A” Restricted Classification Be Made “C,” Allowing Development. Famous old Henderson Castle mav be razed to make way for a modern apartment house development. This was indicated today in publi- cation of a list of 14 petitions for changes in zoning of properties at scattered points in the District, one dealing with the property of the late Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, who was for many years a social leader in the Capital. The property, originally zoned resi- dential A restricted, permitting only detached residential construction, would be given a residential C classi- fication under the proposed change. The petition affects property front- ing on Ontario road and Belmont street as well as on Sixteenth street |and Florida avenue. Now in Trustee’s Name. ‘The property now is in the name of George E. Edelin, trustee for the estate of Mrs. Henderson. There are | reports that New York interests are considering an apartment house de- velopment, but Mr. Edelin said no plans yet have been drawn, although he assumed it would be sold if a comprehensive apartment house proj- ect were developed. Hearing on this and other petitions will be held in a public session of the Zoning Commission at thé District Building October 2. Other petitions to be heard call for the following: Change from residential to first commercial area, property at 601 Twenty-third street; from residential to first commercial, property at 1229 N street; from residential and first commercial, 90-foot, to first commer- cial, 110-foot area, property at 1109 to 1115 Thirteenth street and 1228 to 1234 Massachusetts averue. Other “A” Areas Reduced. From residential 40-foot A restrict- ed area to first commercial 60-foot C area, rear portion of lot on the west side of Wisconsin avenue between Van Ness and Warren streets; from resi- dential A restricted to residential C area, portion of property on north side of Albemarle street between Wisconsin avenue and Forty-second street; from residential A restricted to residential A area, lots on the west side of Colo- rado avenue between Longfellow and Madison streets. From residential 40-foot “A” re- stricted to first commercial, 60-foot “C” area, lots on east side of Alaska avenue between Kalmia road and Twelfth street; from residential 40- foot “A" restricted area to first com- mercial 60-foot “C” area, rear of lot on southeast corner of Georgia avenue and Kalmia road; from resi- dential “A” restricted to residential “A" area, lots fronting on Aspen, Whittier and Third streets. From residential “B” to first com- mercial “C” area, rear of lot at 141 Uhland terrace northeast; from resi- dential “A” restricted to residential “A” area, lots on north side of Rhode Island avenue between Newton and Monroe streets northeast; from resi- dential “B” to second commercial 60-foot “D” area, property on New York avenue, west of Virginia ave- nue northeast; and from residential 40-foot “B" to second commercial 60-foot “D” area, lots on east side of Fenwick street between West Vir- ginia avenue and Gallaudet streef northeast. RITES TOMORROW FOR CAPT. JENNINGS 28th Division Members to Accom- pany Body From Union Sta- tion to Arlington. Capt. James A. Jennings, 64, mem- ber of the 28th Division Association and president of the 113th Infantry Association, who' died Monday at Valley View Sanatorium, Passaic County, N. J., will be buried tomorrow at 2:30 pm. in Arlington National Cemetery, Capt. Jennings was well known to members of Washington Post, No. 29, 20th Division Association. Members of the post will accompany the body from Union Station to the Fort Myer gate of the cemetery. Honorary pallbearers from the Washington post will be Gerald J. O'Day, Edward V. Dittoe, Robert D. Beeton, J. Pred Chase, E. E. McGowan, Ralph M. Graham, Robert S. Bonar, Morris Singer, William B. Keely and Charles W. Travers. Capt. Jznnl'u was an officer in the old 1st New' Jersey Infantry when the World War broke out. He served overseas with the 113th Infantry, being wounded and gassed in action. Surviving are his widow, two sons, Paul and Robert, the latter a lieutenant in the Naval Air Corps, stationed at Honolulu, and two daughters, Mrs. Marion Woods and Miss Eleanor Jen- nings. Funeral services will be held at Newark prior to burial here. Teacher Suspended for 90 Days For Assault on Pupil in Class J. Quincy Adams, Armstrong High School teacher, whose dismissal was asked by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent, and Dr. Garnet C. Wilkin- son, assistant, for an assault upon a pupil, will be suspended for 90 days without pay. When the Board of Education met yesterday, Robert A. Maurer, chair- man of the Personnel Committee, be- fore which Adams had asked a public hearing. recommended that the charges be withdrawn and the sus- pension be substituted. The board approved the recommendation. Adams appeared before the first public meeting of the Personnel mittee on Tuesday, with three at- torneys, and asked that his case be aired publicly. Through Jessie Lewis. one of his counsel, he also asked per- mission to seek a compromise through consultations with Ballou and Wil- Adams and Lewis, accompanied by Attorneys B. V. Lawson, jr., and E. A. Beaubian, met the two school of- ficials and after morning E&mmbmmedhhmdmua: in writing the compromise agreement was reached. At the same ‘time, it was made known that Carter, s cadet leutenant at been ,public schools commits some act that BOARD T0 AWAT TEACHING BREACH N SEHDOLS Anti-Communism Rider to Be Applied if Case in Point Arises. DISPUTE OVER OPINION REFERRED TO LAWYERS Legislative Committee to Press Demand for Public Hearing on Issue. Uniil a teacher in the Washington may be considered a violation of the anti-communism rider to the District | appropriation bill, no action will be | taken by the Board of Education to enforce the law or to disseminate the opinion of the rider recently written by E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation counsel. Prettyman differentiated between the meaning of “teaching” and “ad- vocating” and at least one lawyer on the board disagreed with the ac- cepted meaning of that opinion. King’s View Cited. Henry I. Quinn expressed the opin- fon that Prettyman's interpretation has been misunderstood and that the press had quoted the corporation counsel's belief as to what the law should be rather than what he said the law is. Quinn quoted Senator King, chair- man of the District Committee, as saying Prettyman's opinion did not carry out the intention of Congress. Authors of the anti-Communism rider, the Senator was quoted as saying, intended that the subject should not be discussed at all. He also described the chairman as somewhat disturbed that the corporad tion counsel had let down the bars so that Communism, “as a school of thought or a form of government,” may be described for school children. At any rate, the board referred the entire matter to its Committee on Legislation—composed entirely of lawyers: Quinn, Henry Gilligan, act- ing president, and Benjamin L. Gas- kins—along with ‘a demand from Roscoe F. Walter, a Government at- torney of 1706 Summit place, for & public hearing on the subject. Denies Refusing Plea. Walter disagreed almost wholly with Prettyman's interpretation of the law, and charged in his letter to the board that Gilligan had op- posed a public. disqussion. This was denied by the acting president of the board, who explained that he had asked that the matter be submitted in writing and pointed out that the board members are “too busy” to dis- cuss such matters at length by tele- phone, “He told me, in effect” Gilligan said, “that if we were too busy to attend to Board of Education affairs then we should either resign or give up our private business.” George M. Whitwell, another member, com- mented facetiously upon the “salary” of a board member. (Members serve without compensation.) Dr. J. Hayden Johnson suggested that, since there was a difference in opinion between lawyers, Walter should take up the matter directly with Prettyman. Robert A. Maurer, a former Dis- trict teacher, suggested that if a teacher realizes he may be jeopardiz- ing his salary by a questionable dis- SOUNDARY 5 HELD NI SE B TAKES Government Near Close of District-Virginia Hearing. Henry H. Glassie, special assistant to the Attorney General, today as- serted taxation of boundary lands by Virginia authorities cannot vest titie in the State, as the Government pre- pared to close its case before the Dis- trict-Virginia Boundary Commission. The commission, which has been sitting in the dispute between the | District and Virginia concerning the boundary along the Potomac River, will conclude open hearings after the Government completes its case. Land owners in Virginia, Glassie said, apparently had been runniag their lines out into the water and con- veying land beneath the water, while | the United States continually and | openly was reasserting its claim to the high-water mark on the Virginia shore. “No matter how the Virginians may have worked their real estate,” Glassie said, “you cannot take possession of a public river by drawing a line nor take possession of it by a paper claim. But that is the primary claim of Virginia.” Taxation Not Decision, Glassie quoted Judge G. A. Iverson, chief counsel for the Government in the case, as having showed that mere taxation by Virginia did not prescribe the limit of the territory. The claim that taxation shows jurisdiction was declared by Glassie to be “an affront to the whole State of Virginia.” While contending that decisions of the Supreme Court placed the bound- ary line at high-water mark, Glassie said no authoritative representative of Virginia had been placed as a witness to claim the property in dispute. A deputy sheriff did give such testimony. “You can't take words out of the | mouths of little officials like that and put them in the mouth of the great State of Virginia,” Glassie said. “The claims of taxation to show sovereignty fall like & house of cards.” Marine Railway Case. The Federal counsel quoted particu- larly the Marine Railway case and the Smoot Sand & Gravel case to show the Supreme Court had held the boundary was high water mark. He also referred to 17 cases in the courts where high water mark had been specifically asserted as the boundary. Glassie declared the case of Vir- ginia, which claims the low water mark was predicated in a large part on the result of arbitration in 1877, which Glassie said erroneously held | the boundary was at low water mark and from headland to headland in- cluding bays, coves and indentations cussion of communism “he will drop the subject like a hot potato.” Ballou Defends Teachers. Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintend- ent, asked for instructions on the subject. “Why should I tell the teachers not to do something that I know they are not doing?” he asked, “To pro- hibit the teaching of any subject will serve only to make pupils curious about it.” He explained that in certain civics classes the forms of government of all countries are discussed and de- scribed, and quoted Quinn as saying that it may be bad policy to attempt to accomplish an end “by ignorance rather than by knowledge.” It was finally decided to let the matter rest in the hands of the law- yer members of the board, meanwhile to supply Prettyman with a copy of the letter of protest from Walter. Laurie Dell, 4219 Nichols avenue southeast, who will be among the ou- pils transferred to Anacostia High School when it is opened November 1, wrote the board suggesting that the pupils there be put in uniforms or standardized dress so as to prevent a “child from appedring wealthier than those more unfortunate.” tion of the student body without in- terferénce or action on the part of the board. of the river. He emphasized that the reasons for the Supreme Court rejecting this low- water mark as fixed by the arbitra- tion have been impressed upon the Boundary Commission day after day. He insisted that the Government's case for a high-water mark was clearly supported by decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. May Conclude Today. It was expected that the Govern- ment probably would conclude its case today, closing the commission’s open hearings. The case had opened with Chief Counsel Iverson presenting the Government'’s case, continued with | former State Senator Frank L. Ball of Virginia, appearing for the Old Dominion and was being concluded by Glassie finishing for the Government. Despite statements from officials of ‘Washington-Hoover Airport that the Gcvernment had made no direct overtures or claims of any kind re- garding the disputed land in the air- port, rumors persisted today that there still were prospects of some kind of amicable settlement between counsels regarding the situation there. More than 70 acres of filled land now in the airport were formerly marsh, now claimed by both the United States and the State of Virginia. SHARP CUT LIKELY IN HEALTH BUDGET $60,000 Rumored Trimmed From Requested Total by Com- missioners. A slash of some $60,000 has been n- made tentatively by the Commissiol ers in the budget requests for the next fiscal to reports current ,. the District today. and Budget ‘The Commissioners Officer Daniel J. Donovan declined to School, at Twenty-second and Prout FH¥ Attractively designed dwellings of the type pictured above will be built in Hollywood Park to be developed as a low-cost housing project in Anacostia by a group of Government employes. The first of the 190 homes, ranging from $4,250 to $7,500, is expected to be completed in February. Despite competition by the P. W. A. Housing Division, the private corporation of Government employes succeeded in launching the project. The map below shows the boundaries of the housing project. The 45 acres are bounded by Alabama and Pennsylvania avenues, Fort Dupont and the Fort Davis drive. (Story on Page A-1) SPURS EN[ISTINGi to 600,000. By the Associated Press. . Recruits were appearing for enroll- | ment at Civilian Conservation Corps | headqusrters here todsy, following re- | duction of the age limit to 17 years in an effort to swell the cnu.n.mentl roll to the legal limit of 600,000. The | age limit was formerly 18. Coincidentally, officials of F. E. R. A's Rural Research Division esti- mated 400,000 families embracing 1,- | 750,000 persons were dropped from relief rolls in rural areas between February and June. Robert Fechner, C. C. C. director, said it was anticipated that more than | 100,000 young men and veterans would | earolled for the forest camps in | Jctober in a program intended to re- | place those who will drop out before | October 1 and to increase the corps | to more than the 519,000 figure| reached August 31. | Rural research officials declined to express an opinion on causes for the estimated drop from a total of ap-| proximately 8,500,000 persons on re-; lief to 6,750,000. In the age group be- tween 16 and 24 it was likewise esti- mated that the number on relief in the rural area has dropped from 1,370,~ 000 to 1,115,000 during the same pe- riod. The first new C. C. C. recruits will be used to bring up C. C. C. camps averages to 200 men. Should the corps strength go as high as 69,000 the number of camps would be increased, officials indicated, from 2,551 to 2,916. It was learned that virtually all war veterans in transient relief camps will be eligible, regardless of age, to sign on with the C. C. C. Portable Schools, Bane of System To Return to D. C. Portable schools, bane of the Dis- trict public school system and of Washington citizens’ associations for years, will return to service this Fall ‘with additions. d Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent, terday asked the Board of Bduu{{“on to request the Federal Gov- ernment for permission to use United States property at E street and Ana- costia road southeast as the site for two portable schools. ‘The request was made when it was shown by residents of North Randle Highlands that 124 children who live in the locality reside one milg or more from the nearest elementary schools. ‘The Benning School, on Minnesota avenue between Benning road and Foote street northeast, and the Orr streets southeast, at present take care of North Randle Highlands children. Student Trips By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., (.. C.AGE SLASH [D. C. JDGES HEED BRITON'S CRITICISM Express Doubt, However, Whether Jails Can Solve Drunkenness. Although expressing general agree- ment with criticisms- made yesterday by a visiting English jurist regard- ing the number of drunkenness cases and the “disgraceful conditions” ex- isting in the Police Court here the four presiding judges of the court today declared they are doubtful whether jail sentences for habitual drunkards constitute the real solu- tion to the situation. The criticisms were made by Justice George Blaiklock of the Recorder Court, Grantham, England, who visited the local court for the third time in 10 years yesterday and ‘“de- clared he found no improvement in conditions.” His criticism regarding | the conduct of attorneys in the court was held justifiable by Judge Wal- ter J. Casey, most recent appointee |to the Police Court bench. The judges agree there are more intoxication cases than should pre- vail under normal conditions, but no | definite plan has been worked out as yet for a substantial reduction, they said. Some believe jail sentences do no more than keep the habitual | drunk off the street during the time | he is locked up. All of the judges were in hearty agreement that conditions in Police Court are a “disgrace” to the Capital City, but see no way of overcoming these without a new building. Judge Casey said there undoubtedly should be an improvement in the manner in which lawyers try cases. MRS. JOSEPH W’ENERNEY BURIAL IS TOMORROW Mrs. Joseph McEnerney, daughter of Thomas Purcell, head foreman on construction of the Washington Mon- ument, died yesterday at her home, 1620 Wisconsin avenue, after a long illness. She was 64. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, fol- lowed by requiem mass at Holy Trinity Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. McEnerney, wife of Joseph Mc- Enerney, & machinist at the Navy Yard, was active among charitable workers for the St. Vincent’s Home and School. She was a native of ‘Washington. Surviving are her husband, a daugh- ter, Miss Margaret McEnerney, and two sisters, Miss Margaret Purcell and Mrs. Hugh J. Murray. Senses Worth $15,000. For the loss of his senses of taste and smell, sustained when he was run down by an automobile, a wine taster of London was awarded damages of $15,000. Arlington Schools May Bar Out of County ‘The conference today is expected to decide whether the interpretation will be narrowed down to requiring | an_examiner to maintain a tion of pay roll records. Society and General PAGE B—1 SIMPLICITY IS AIM IN DRAWING PLANS IN'10B INSURANCE Minimum of Requirements on Employers Objective of Board. TENTATIVE OUTLINES TO BE OFFERED TODAY Informal Studies Are Started by Security Unit—Members Take Office Oct. 1. Simplicity of requirements on em- | ployers is a principal objective of plans for administration of unemploy- | ment insurance here, officials of the District Unemployment Compensation Board explained today. The plans are now being prepared. Tentative outlines for administra- tion, adopted by the board at a lengthy executive session late yester- day, were to be presented today to the National Social Security Board, which has begun informal studies, although its members will not take office until October 1. The Federal board holds powers to pass on all policies and methods | of operation of the District agency. Few Forms Required. Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman, who aided in drafting a tentative method of operation, said the aim would be to relieve employers of all possible operations in submis- sion of records on employment. A minimum of forms will be required The local board contemplates placing the detailed work on its staff. A huge task faces the new munic- ipal agency in preparation of a com- prehensive set of regulations and a handbook of instructions. Promulga- tion of rules has been set for Decem- ber 20 at the latest. These are to cover policies on every class of ques- tions that can be anticipated. They are to outline also procedural require- ments with respect to returns, records and other details. Compilation of a register of all em- ployers has been started. John A Marshall, superintendent of insurance, who was named director for unem- ployment insurance, will make use of lists of business organizations, city and telephone directories, automobile licenses and those of policyholders of | workmen's compensation insurance in completing the register. Workers Put at 60,000. The commissioner estimates there are 15,000 employers in the District and some 60,000 employes who will | come under the insurance plan. It is | planned to divide the District into | zones, for each of which there will be inspec-« e zones would be fixed by the number of em- | ployes and employers in an area. Use of punch card machine opera- tion in compilation of data from time to time from card indices has been selected as a means of speedy admin- istration machinery. By this means, cards can be sorted quickly as to classes of employment, wages, those | listed as out of work and so forth | Employers would not be required to | fill out lengthy monthly returns pro- | vided they can supply copies of their pay roll records which contain the fol- lowing information: Full names of em- ‘ployes. kind of work performed: rate of wage, per hour, day or week; gratui- | ties, if any, in keeping with a scale for | averages which will be included in | regulations; time worked by hours, per | week, including overtime; total wage actually paid, including gratuities; sep- arations from and additions to em- ployment, with dates, and the name of the business and address of the em- ployer. Advance Rulings. Advance rulings to be given by the board are to include a host of questions of interpretation. Among these are questions of compensation responsi- bility for a non-resident, corporation officers and directors, receivers and administrators, the employment of physicians, lawyers ‘and ministers, salesmen on commission, association members with drawing accounts, rela- tions of religious, educational, fraterna! | and charitable organizations to their | employes, part-time employes, rela- tions between contractors and sub- contractors, the broad field of domestic | service and the definition of classes of casual labor. Members of the board are Daniel J. Callahan, John Locher and District Commissioners Hazen, Allen and Sultan. WASHINGTON WOMAN CLEARED IN FATALITY By the Associated Press. ELDERSBURG, Md., September 19 —Mrs. Mamel Bell, wife of a promi- went Washington attorney, has been cleared of criminal Jiability in the death of Mrs. Sarah Garson of Frost- burg, in a motor crash here. An inquest held last night resulted in a coroner’s jury verdict that Mrs. Gerson's death was accidental. The Washington woman had been at liberty on $2,000 bond on a technical charge of manslaughter. Mrs. Bell's machine collided Sep- tember. 11, with one driven by Mrs. Gerson’s son, Milton, on the West- minster road. Mrs. Gerson, aged 52, died en route to a Baltimore hospital. et e MRS. CLARK’S FUNERAL confirm or deny reports, merely. say- | September 19.—Because of the con- ing “the Health Department of neces- | tinued threat of infantile paralysis, sity must take its chances along with | students of Arlington County schools other important units of the District [ may be notified todsy that leaving TO BE HELD TOMORROW Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Sha- students to be in the county two weeks after the return from any trip outside of the county. Government in the framing of a tentative 1937 budget.” The budget éstimates as submitted by department heads proposed a total iture for next year of more than $54,000,000, and after a calcu’-.« tion of expected revenues for 1937 the Commissioners indicated they would have to cut the totaled requests down to about $46,000,000. For the present year, the Health the counfy for week end trips or other will result in a two- week suspension from classes. Dr. P. M. Chichester, county health officer, and Fletcher Kemp, superin- tendent of schools, are conferring to- day on the matter, and it was stated by them that teachers would be ad- vised of the action taken. The facing the officials is the interpretation of a regulation This would include afternoon or night trips to Washington and Alex~ andria, except for visits to physicians and dentists. “The situation is not as favorable in the State as I had ex- pected it would be,” Dr. Chichester said. “Three cases were reported to- day from the northern part of the State, which up until now was free from the disease.” loe Clark, 79, who died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Agnes W. Maher, 742 Crittenden street, will be' held at the residence at 9 am. to- morrow, followed by requiem mass at St. Gabriel's Church at 9:30 am. Burial will “e in'Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Clark, widow of William Clark, a stationary engineer, came to Wash- ington 50 years ago from Ireland, her birthplace. She is survived by three daughters,, Mrs. Maher and Mrs. Adritta Rito. Howells, both of Washington, and' Mrs. May Slater of Detroit. A grand- mflwl"fl"