Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1935, Page 21

- [emenvee ] The Sunday Star WASHINGTON, D. C, —_— SENATETO STUDY - TRAFFIC MENACE, KING SAYSINTALK Committee Will Seek to Make Streets of Capi- tal Safer. ANY PLAN OFFERING RELIEF TO BE WEIGHED Need of New Court Buildings, In- fant Mortality, Suburbs’ Problems Cited. How to make the streets of Wash- ington safer will be one of the chief problems to which the Senate District Committee will devote attention at the next session, its chairman, Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, predicted last night in a review of District af- fairs. 3 Speaking from radio station WISV, the Senator also urged enactment of laws to simplify the city government, based on last year's reorganization study of municipal agencies. He also renewed his intention of working for early construction of new buildings in Judiciary Square to house Police, Juvenile and Municipal Courts. After deploring the number of traf- fic deaths, the Senate Committee chairman said proposed solutions range from enlargement of the police force to the building of subways. His committee, he said, “will listen with patience to any proposal which offers relief.” Mortalities on Increase. “Recently,” said Senator King, “we have been appalled by the terrific number of deaths resulting from col- Uisions and other traffic causes. In - spite of a persistent campaign upon the part of the District Commission- ers and of the traffic authorities, the mortalities from this modern menace constantly increase. The young and the old, the careful and the irrespon- sible, are alike subjected to this men- ace. The press has participated in a generous measure in the effort to edu- cate the public toward more cafeful driving. “Numerous measures for greater %» gafety, including the substantial en- largement of the Police Department, and extending to highly theoretical proposals for huge investment in spe- cial super-highways, have been made public. This pertinent question will be before the committee when Con- gress reconvenes. It may be that im- provements in mass transportation can render such service so attractive as to diminish the use of private vehicles to a point where our highways may once more be safe. “There is pending before Congress a proposal for the study of the practi- cability of a subway system for the District of Columbia. and organizations supporting this move are convinced tnat the satura- tion point has been reached on the public streets, and the improvement in transportation by the separation of grades for the use of mass transpor- tation is an immediate necessity. The | huge expenditures involved in this program deserve careful scrutiny, but | in the face of the appalling sacrifice | of life and property the committee | + will be inclined to listen with patience | to any proposal which cffers relief.” Court Building Need Stressed. Referring to the nced for early erection of buildings for the minor courts, King said he has inspected the present Police Court Building and is familiar with “the atrocious condi- tions” which exist there. He pointed out it was designed for only two court rooms and is now used by four judges. Unfortunately, the Senator said, rigid rules established by the admin- istration to secure the maximum re- duction in unemployment make it impossible to obtain a P. W. A. loan at this time for the Judiciary Square building program. He reiterated, how- ever, his intention of seeking an ap- propriation for these buildings in the ~ 1 first deficiency bill brought up at the | next session. Discussing the public health needs | of the District, Senator King con- tinued: “Infant mortality in the District, with a death rate of 66.1 per 1,000 liv- ing births during 1934, is cause for | serious concern. The rate is distinctly higher than that in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, New York and many other large cities with populations far greater and with the further disad- -vantage of large industrial develop- ments. D. C. Highest of 46 Cities. “According to recent reports, tuber- culosis mortality in the District is the highest in the 46 principal cities of the Nation, only one other city, and that ‘much smaller, showing a higher death rate. Child health in the schools, both public and parochial, re- -+ ceives inadequate supervision, and the staffs available for inspection of food and sanitation, as well as in the public health nursing service, are ad- mittedly inadequate. “Some provision has been made for increased funds for this activity, pri- marily intended to diminish child tuberculosis through the detection of inciplent cases. The full program “ necessary to bring public health activi- ties to the state of 'theoretical perfec- tion desired by the experts involves the expenditure of such a vast sum of money, regarded by some as be- yond immediate realization.” The Senator reviewed briefly the increase in appropriations for the District over a period of 20 years. In 1915, he said, District expendi- tures amounted to $13,728,000, ex- cluding $586,155 spent by the self- sustaining Water Department. Nearly Three Times That Now. “In the current fiscal year, he con- tinued “appropriations made and pending are $37,457,000—$2,500,000 has been appropriated from gasoline tax funds for highways, and the Water Department appropriations will ag- gregate $2,065,000.” King cited the growth of the city, +and said he did not wish to appear an alarmist on the subject of goverp- mental expenditures, but aded: . "I think I have cited sufficient data o prove the necessity for caution and (See KING, Page B-4.) bl The officials | Re w Mrs. Mary Pitcher and her shows Pitcher, R friends were returning from the Pres- OBERT PITCHER, 29, father Airport Basin. Pitcher, a machinist, lived at 1209 D street southeast. With his brother Raymond. Mel- | bun Wright and Arthur | Pitcher had been watching the regat- ! ta from his 30-foot cabin boat. All pants started to walk to the rear. ‘The brother and Wright were unable but Sherry had started ashore in al rowboat, which turned over in nine | vived by his widow, Mrs. Mary E. able weather. feet of water when one of the occu- | Pitcher, and the three children, one | gatta Spectator Drowned When Rowboat Is Capsized three children, Robert, 17 months; George, 3 months, and Margaret 7 years old, widow and children of Robert Pitcher, 29, drowned late yesterday in the Airport Basin. L Insert —Star Staff Photo. to rescue Pitcher, but his body was of three small children, was recovered by three men from the| drowned last night when a Washington Boat Club called by | rowboat in which he and two Sherry, who had remained on the cabin boat. Only a small amount of ident’s Cup regatta capsized in the water was found in Pitcher's lungs | and it was believed he may have died | of a heart attack. | “His companions were released Sherry, | pending an inquest after they had direction of the Bureau of Public | been questioned by police. | Pitcher, who was employed at the Union Station roundhouse, is sur- | three months old, one 17 months and the other seven years old. AUTO CLUB FIGHTS FUEL TAX BOOST {D. C. Keystone Board Op- poses Proposal to Increase Gasoline Levy. A new assault on proposals for a boost in the gasoline tax in the Dis- trict as & means of raising more rev- enue in the next fiscal year was made yesterday by the Advisory Board of the Keystone Automobile Club of the District in a letter to the Commis- sioners. The District Automobile Club of the American Automobile Association, the officers of the Keystone Automobile Club and other groups have assailed the proposal since Commissioner George E. Allen recently revealed his suggestion that gasoline taxes be di- verted into the general revenues of the District. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen has balked at that suggestion, but is rep- resented as believing an increase in | gasoline taxes would be warranted in raising additional revenues next year. | The question will be considered in | the forthcoming report of the Munici- | pal Taxation Committee, headed by | Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pretty- man, which will hold another meet- | ing this week. The committee was di- | rected by the Commissioners to con- | sider revamping of the District taxa- tion system and to suggest additional sources of revenue. Harvey L. Cobb, chairman of the Executive Board, and George E. Keneipp, secretary of the Keystone Automobile Club, yesterday wrote the Commissioners: “A recent newspaper report indicates that the District Commissioners are considering the diversion of funds de- rived from the 2-cent gasoline tax to purposes other than highway and grade-crossing construction and main- tenance. “It is the feeling of this board that the motorist, by paying the current 2-cent District gasoline tax, the 1-cent Federal tax, the Federal tax on lubri- cating oils, the fee for license tags, personal property tax and operator’s permit, is already contributing a fair share of the revenue necessary to carry on the functions of the government. More Roads Declared Need, “There is still vital need for addi- tional road construction and main- tenance and it is declared in the | Hayden-Cartwright act appropriating Federal-aid highway funds to the States that ‘it is unfair and unjust to tax motor vehicle transportation unless the proceeds of such taxation are applied to the construction, im- provement or maintenance of high- ways.' “It is further provided under the Hayden-Cartwright act that one- third of the Federal aid may be with- held from States which do not con- tinue to use at least the amounts that were provided by law for highway purposes at the time of passage of the act, which would hsve an 4mpor- tant bearing on the unemployment situation in’ the District as well as upon local road construction and maintenance. “Narrow, crooked and congested streets can only provide a continuous menace to the safety of our citizens un- less the gasoline tax and other reve- nues derived from motorists are used to alleviate such conditions.” | Italy’s Gold Reserve Drops. ROME, September 28 (#).—The Bank of Italy’s gold reserve dropped from September 10 to September 20. Gold and foreign credit coverage of sight obligations dropped close to the 30 per cent mark. Bank note circulation, the state- ment disclosed today, at the same time increased from 14,234,000,000 lire .to 14,917,000,000. (] BEST BUILDINGS Board of Trade Honor De- signed to Encourage Good Architecture. For the encouragement of go~d | ington Board of Trade announced yes- terday it will award certificates of { merit to the owners and architects | of the best buildings erected in Wash- | ington during the year. The contest is under direction of the | Committee on Municipal Art, of which Louis Justement is chairman. ‘The scope of the contest is wide enough to cover general building, signs ard landscaping. Subjects which may be given the Board of Trade award include: Any public or private building, the completion of Wnich occurred between January 1, 1935, and January 1, 193¢. Merit in design is a quality which s | independent of size and cost and the | | most modest dwelling or shop will re- ceive equal consideration with the | most costly structure. Alterations in- | volving substantial change in design | also are regarded as suitable subjects. Unobjectionable Signs. Signs designed to accomplish the: purpose of selling things which they advertise without being objectionagle. Landscaping, gardens, including the arrangement of back yards and the general plan of subdivisions. Because awards have not been pre- viously given for signs and gardens there is no time limitation as to the date of completion of these subjects. The territory considered will be thed District of Columbia and adjacent suburbs in Maryland and Virginia. A jury of three prominent architects selected by the Municipal Art Com- mittee will make the selections. The awards will be made at the Board of Trade meeting early in 1936. Submission may be made by own- ers, architects, builders or any other interested parties, accompanied by data giving the location of the property, the names and addresses of | the owner, the architect and the build- | er. They must be accompanied by | photographs not exceeding 8 by 10 inches. January 20 Outside Data. Submission will be received until| January 20, 1936, and should be ad- dressed to the Committee on Munici- pal Art, Washington Board of Trade, Evening Star Building. In a statement issued yesterday, Mr. Justement said the committee hopes especially that the buying pub- lic will be interested in demanding well-designed buildings and in “learn- ing to distinguish between that which is basically fine and that which bases its sales appeal on mechanical gadgets and flashy but vulgar designs.” Most of the ugliness in buildings, Mr. Justement said, is caused by superfluous and poorly designed orna- ment and sham architectural features. JEWISH JUNIORS MEET HERE OCTOBER 20 T0 25 Exhibit of Work Conducted by Local Section Planned at Conference. The Ninth Biennial Conference of the National Council of Jewish Juniors will meet at the Washington Hotel October 20 to 25, it was anounced yesterday. Miss Hilda Levy of Was has been chosen conference chairman and AWARD PLANNED | architecture and planning the Wash- | PARKWAY'S NEW THOROUGHFARE 10 BE THROWN OPEN Concrete Base Practically Completed Between P and K Streets. UNCOMPLETED BRIDGE CAUSES TRAFFIC SHIFT New Connection With Highway Being Constructed at West End of Low-Level Span. The newly constructed highway in Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, be- tween P and K streets, will be opened to motor travel in about three weeks, it was announced yesterday by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District director of highways, who is supervising the building of this park valley thorough- fare. in and the workmen are engaged in building the curbs and gutters. A black, asphaltic surface will be con- structed on top of thiss and then, shortly after the middle of October, the road will be thrown open to traffic. Routing Due to Bridge. Pending completion of the new low level bridge across the creek at P street, traffic will be routed up out of the park and across the present P street bridge. A new connection with the highway is being constructed at the west end of the bridge to ac- complish this. Meanwhile, the J. A. Laporte Con- struction Co. of New York, under | Roads is at work building the new | low-level bridge. This is expected to | | be completed in March, with favor- | The engineers have dug a new bed | for Rock Creek and diverted the | | waters from their centuries-old course in the valley so they may construct | a cofferdam for the bridge abutment | in mid - valley. The giant Sw‘m\ shovels are eating down to bed rock | for firm foundations and forms are | being nailed up, preparatory to the | | pouring of concrete. Bridge Approaches. When this low-level bridge is fin- ished, Capt. Whitehurst will begin The concrete base is now practically | SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER Boy Shows How Dead Chum “Stole Ride” A friend of Edward Winters is shown hanging from the rear of a truck, demonstrating the manner in which the 15-year-old boy met death late yesterday when crushed against another vehicle. (Story on Page A-1) Winters boy. 29, 1935. D. C. BRAKE RULES HELD INSUFFICIENT' Requirements Fail to Come Up to Safety Conference Standards. building the approaches to it, so traf- fic from the lower part of the valley | may be carried to the east bank and thence under Q Street Bridge. | When all this work is accomplished, | the dream of the planners will be realized, a motor highway through Rock Creek Valley—all the way from | Lincoln ‘Memorial to the East-West | Highway in Montgomery County, Md. | The Maryland National Capital Park |and Planning Commission, with the 'aid of funds under the Capper-Cram- ton park-purchase act, proposes to | push the parkway develoment farther | northward. It is now acquiring the }necesury land and making -arrange- ' ments for road construction far up | Rock Creek. OUTSIDERS BARRED FROM 6 SCHOOLS Western, Eastern and Roosevelt High Among Those Held Lacking Room. .The doors of six District schools, three junior and three senior hign schools, were definiiely closed yester- day to all non-resident pupils by order of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools. The schools affected by the order | are Western, Eastern and Roosevelt | High Schools and Gordon, Deal and Langley Junior High Schools. ‘The move was made necessary, Dr. Ballou said, because of the limited number of teachers and a lack of building space at the six schools. At the same time, the superintend- ent announced a number of pupils from Maryland may be admitted to the new Woodrow Wilson High School. In addition, the principals of McKin- ley and Central High Schools have been authorized to enrqll a limited number of non-resident pupils pro- vided the earollment of such students will not require additional teachers. i FIRST WARD CITIZENS TO ASK MORE POLICE Additioral Traffic Lights Pennsylvania Avenue Also to Be Requested. An increased police force and the installation of traffic lights on Penn- sylvania avenue intersections from Eighteenth street through Washington Circle and at Twentieth and K streets will be requested in a petition to be presented the Commissioners by the First Ward Citizens’ Association. ‘The association, at a meeting Wed- pesday, indorsed The Star's safe driv- ing campaign and declared many traffic and criminal offenses were due to an inadequate police force. Seventeen schools were listed for awards for good citizenship. MOTORISTS ARE WARNED ROAD EDGES ARE SOFT Southern Maryland Routes Are Cited in Bulletin Issued by Commission. By 8 Staff Correspondent of The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., September 28.— Motorists driving in Southern Mary- land were warned today to be care- ful of soft earth ‘shoulders in St. on Motor vehicle brake requirements in Washington do not come up to the standards recommended in the uniform traffic code by the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, a survey disclosed yesterday. Tests for heavy penumatic-tired trucks fall be- | | hind those for passenger automobiles, | although both are allowed the same ‘speed, except where gross weight ex- ceeds 28,000 pounds. Civil War Caval Recalls His “0!d January W as Black Beauty,” Says Joseph R. Jones. 67-Year-Old Son, Still His Little Boy, to Visit Home Inmate. One of the brighest spots in the memory of former Cavalryman Joseph R. Jones, who celebrates his 100th | birthday anniversary today at the Sal- diers’ Home here, is his recollection of | the horse which bore him through | Inset shows the —Star Staff Photo. J Sports—Pages 10 to 14 PAGE B—1 PLANS ARE DRAWN FOR TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN IN CITY 100 WorKers Will Conduct Drive Under Ruhland’s Direction. DR. SECKINGER TO TAKE NEW POSITION HERE First Assistant Health Officer Begins Work Tuesday—X-ray Examinations Planned. Organization of a staff of more than 100 workers to conduct an extensive tuberculosis eontrol campaign under direction of Health Officer George C. Ruhland will be started this week. At the same time, strengthening of the regular forces of the Health Department will be started with the induction into office of Dr. Daniel Lamond Seckinger of Atlanta as first assistant health officer. Dr. Seckinger will take office Tuesday. Appointment of a director for tuberculosis and ex- pansion of the Public Health Nursing Bureau will follow shortly. ‘William C. Cleary, assistant deputy works administrator for the District, gave assurances yesterday assiznment of qualified persons on the relief list for the tuberculosis case-finding pro= gram would be in full swing this week. Ruhland to Select Aides. Dr. Ruhland will be given power of selection of a general supervisor, three assistant supervisors, 75 home inves- tigators, and also will have 22 tem- porary clerks, four typists and 11 attendants. With the starting of the new work - relief program, scores of case workers have been dropped from ryman at 100 Faithful Steeq Last year, it wgs pointed out by |some of the hottest engagements of for the Washington district of the street and highway safety group ap- proved a code for more stringent brake requirements, believing improved auto- motive machinery justified more rigid tests. | Under the group’s proposal, both | passenger automobiles and pneumatic- tired trucks would be required to be able to stop within 30 feet with foot brakes and at s distance of 55 feet with hand brakes. Tests for both | automobiles and trucks, under the code, would be given at a speed of 20 miles an hour, Under traffic regulations in the Dis- trict, an automobile traveling at this rate must be able to stop within 40 feet with foot brakes and at 75 feet with | hand brake. Light pneumatic-tired trucks, weighing 1, tons or less, are required to pass the same tests. Speeds for Truck Tests. For pneumatic-tired trucks weigh- | ing more than 1, tons, the brake tests are given at speeds of only 15 miles an hour. The heavier trucks, however, are required to be able to stop at a distance of 40 feet with both the foot and hand brakes. Brake tests for trucks are given here while they are unloaded. The code recommended by the highway group requires trucks to be able to meet the brake tests with or without load. Where gross weight of any truck is more than 28,000 pounds, the speed is limited to not more than 10 miles per hour, instead of 22 miles allowed lighter pneumatic tired trucks. All solid tired trucks are required to run at a speed of not more than 15 miles per hour. Favors Passenger Standards. Ham pointed out that the Ameri- can Automobile Association long has been in favor of trucks having the same standard for brake tests as passenger automobiles. He said, how- ever, the association favors allowing sqme time for the improvement of truck brakes to enable them to pass more readily the more rigid tests. ‘There are approximately 18,000 trucks, including all types, in Wash- ington, it is reported at the office of Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer, and approximately passenger automobiles. Based on these figures, the trucks, which number slightly more than 10 per cent of the number of passenger automobiles, have been ible responsil this year for more than 25 per cent of | the total deaths in which trucks and passenger automobiles are listed as the striking machines. In a total of 6,184 accidents this year, through August 31, in which all classes of vehicles were involved, trucks were held to blame in 720 cases and passenger automobiles in 4,278, the trucks being responsible in more than 10 per cent of the total. On a percentage comparison trucks and automobiles alone, which account for a total of 4,998 accidents between them, the trucks were re- sponsible in more than 14 per cent of the cases. 2 Drown in Lake Arapa. LIMA, Peru, September 28 (P).— has named a large committee of local | Marys County, due to recent wash- | The newspaper El Commercio reported Washington members are planning an exhibit of the work being conducted by the local junior cludes the Goldsmith Recrestion and Camp thropie 228,000,000 lire (about $22,559,000) | gic 4o gssist in arrangements. The | outs. A bulletin of the State Roads Com- mission also cautioned the traveling Route No. 5 between Great Mills and Point Lookout. Soft shoulders also were in -Caroline and Talbot Counties. > in belated dispatches today that 20 persons were drowned in Lake Arapa, Azangaro Province, when & motor which in- [public to drive carefully over five|launch overturned. -Eleven persons tal social | temporary one-way bridges on State | were rescued. Lake Arapa is approximately 10,000 feet above sea level and some of the deaths were attributed to the shock of the icy water, 172,000 | | Richard M. Ham, director of safety | the Civil War. | “Old Januery,” Jones called that | American Automobile Association, the | horse, a black beauty which he said, | could outtrot and outjump anything | in his regiment, the 6th United States | Cavalry. Even today, Jones cannot | think of January without a quivver of | rage at the Army regulations, or just plain “hoss thievery,” as Jones put it, which separated the pair. The old soldier raised himself in his wheel chair yesterday, and his feeble voice, strengthened by indigna- tion, created a stir of interest among | the prone or seated figures down the long hospital ward at the home. “They stole January, that's what | they did!" stated Jones. His voice shook and his eyes blinked back the moisture. First Horse Shot Down. | Jones’ acquaintance with January began several months after the Con- federates shot his regular horse from under him at Antietam in September, 1862. Jones then made out as best he could until one cold January morn- ing, January 1, it was, when they brought him the big black horse. “He liked me the first time he laid eyes on me,” said Jones. “He was one of those wild horses which were lassoed on the Western plains for the Union troops. But we got along. “I began to teach him tricks. I would ask him, “Are you hungry, January?’ and he would nod his head, ‘Yes. sometning to eat?’ | January would nod again and I | would say, “All right, then, salute me! “January would arch his neck and stamp his right foot in as pretty a salute as you ever saw. to Gettysburg and through Gettysburg. We came out with 75 survivors of the 800 men of our regiment who went in. “At Gettysburg, our regimént got orders to go to Fairfield in the moun- tains about 8 miles to the southwest, toward Hagerstown, to take some Rebels we heard were coming up with ammunition. Then I would say, ‘Do you wanti I.rode him | JOSEPH R. JONES. —A. P. Photo. “We had then 300 veterans and 500 | green replacement troops. Anyhow, Gen. Lee got word of our movement | and we were surrounded in the moun- | tains by J. E. B. Stuart’s Cavalry and | two Infantry regiments. Refuse to Surrender. “Our colonel said, ‘Boys, I'll never | surrender—you can make your own | choice!” “And we said, ‘We'll stick to you, colonel!” “The 75 of us were saved when the | wounded Confederate horses broke | through their Infantry lines and we | went out behind them. | *“Old January took me through that. | He got so I never had to picket him at night. I would let him graze loose | and he would come when I called him, from as far as he could hear the sound of my voice. “We had just turned out early one | morning in Virginia when a general irode by. He stopped in front of my | tent. ‘Where's your horse?’ he asked. ‘We're moving.’ { “I just shouted for January and he {came up at a fast trot from a quar- ter of a mile. The general said: “‘That horse is too good to be in’ this war!” | “When my enlistment ran out I tried to buy January back, but they } the Secretary of War wouldn't let him “The happiest part of my life was | spent in the Army, soldiering, but | that time was the worst part of it.” Jones, a native of Harrisburg, Pa., enlisted in October, 1861, and was discharged October 15, 1864. He came to the home here 11 years ago, and an only son lives in Philadelphia. “My little boy is coming for my birthday party,” said Jones. “He's 67, but I still call him ‘little boy.'” JEWS END SERVICES \FOR ROSH HASHANAH Holy Days Continue Till Oct. 6 and 7, However, Finishing With Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah services will be concluded in Wasnington Jewish synagogues today, but holy days will continue until October 6 and 7, con- cluding with the rites of Yom Kippur. Washington Jewry has been ob- serving Rosh Hasharah since: Friday, meeting in the synagogues of both the reformed and orthodox faiths. Rabbi Z. Green at Ohev Sholm Congregation, Fifth and I streets, to- day will preach on “The Awakening Call.” At Adas Israel Synagogue, Sixth and I streets, Rabbi Solomon H, Metz will take as his topic, “Whom Shall We Educate?” ISR S S Sociologist to Speak Here. Miss Mary L. Read, New York edu- cator and sociologist, will speak on “Rochdale Principles of Consumers’ Co-operation” at a meeting of the Civic National Forum today at 3:30 pm. at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Fourteenth and Cor- coran streets. The public is invited. 4 . HEARING TOMORROW ON LINCOLN ROAD Conflicting Proposals for Changes to Be Presented to D. C. Board. Conflicting proposals for changes in Lincoln road nertheast, in the vicinity of Trinity College, will be considered by the District Commussioners in a public hearing beginning at 10 am. tomorrow in the Board Room of the District Building. Plans of District highway engineers call for widening and improvement of Lincoln road from Michigan avenue south to near Rhode Island avenue. Officials of Trinity College and the Oblate Fathers order seek the closing of Lincoln road from Michigan ave- nue to the line of Franklin street northeast. As a substitution, the college au- thorities suggest opening of Franklin street across the grounds of Trinity College and the development of a diagonal avenue from the intersection of Lincoln road and Franklin street to a point on Fourth street south of Michigan avenue. Representative Mary T. Norton, chairman of the House District Com- mittee, is sponsoring the change pro- posed by the college spokesmen. wouldn't let me have him. They said | the public assistance division. Those | who are certified as relief clients may be drawn by Dr. Ruhland for empi ment in his tuberculosis cempa Ninety per cent of his extra stafl, how= ever, must come off the relief list. All of next month is to be devoted to preparations for the giving of X- ray and other examinations to volun= teers in the search for tuberculosis victims. Outlines of the program will be given by Dr. Ruhland in ad- dresses to medical groups. Physicians and other leaders in the drive on tu- berculosis then will speak before civie and community groups, urging that thousands submit to harmless ex« aminations. X-ray Tests Planned. School and Community Center De- partment officials will be asked to permit use of space in two or three schools for staking of X-ray tests.*This work is to be conducted during No= vember. Meanwhile, clerks will pre= pare card index files on families in which tuberculosis has been experie enced. This system will be contine ued as volunteers appear for ex= aminations. | After the November examinations the home investigators will engage in follow-up work in homes in which | cases of the disease have been identi- | fied and advice will be given as to | proper procedure, whether it be for | hospital care, home treatment or clin- | ical visits. Education in proper meth- ods of treatment is a major part of | the plan, | The District Tuberculosis Associa= tion has promised a donation of $6.000 for use in hiring necessary expert med- ical aid in the giving of X-ray tests | and for provision of technical equip= ment. This and other medical groups |also will appeal to the public to aid by volunteer appearance for examina- tions. ‘The Federal Works Progress Admin- istration has allotted $99,000 for the survey as a work-relief project. The | $6,000 grant from the Tuberculosis As- | soclation will be used to supplement | the salaries of some of the technically trained persons to be employed. o= TALLEST MAN HERE * WANTED FOR PLAY | Pied Piper Stunt for Halloween Parade Sought by Play- grounds Director. The District Playground Depart- ment is looking for the tallest man in Washington. He is wanted to play the Pied Piper in a stunt being worked out by play- | ground boys and girls for the annual Halloween parade October 31. | In order to begin work shortly on | the elaborate presentation, the “tallest | man” must be discovered during next week. Miss Sibyl Baker, director of playgrounds, has asked that all pere sons interested in the part get in com= munication with her as soon as pos= sible. The playground subcommittee of the 1935 Halloween Celebration Commit- tee is one of the most important in the organization and is expected to enter some of the most attractive units in the parade. et CAR riEAR WINCHESTER SERIOUSLY HURTS MAN Luther H. Coffman, 72, Walking Along Road, Is Struck. Woman Cited. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., September 28.— Luther H. Coffman, 72, returning afoot today from nearby Clark County, was critically injured when struck by an automobile said by police to have been driven by Mrs. Mary Warfield, Balti« more. Coffman suffered compound leg fractures, scalp injuries, cuts and bruises. Hospital attendants said his condition was critical. State Ine spgetor R. E. Bayliss quoted Mrs, ‘Warfield as saying she was passing a truck that had been parked at the side of the road, and that a cab door was open.. While trying to avoid striking the door she hit Coffman, she said, walking on the left side of the road. She was en route to visit rela~ tives at Reliance, Va. She was cited to report here tomorrow. 3