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Washington News APEX BUILDING >TU BE OCCUPIED BY TRADE UNIT Treasury Discloses Original | Design for Structure Will Be Revised. $3,665,000 ALLOTTED FROM P. W. A. FUNDS Commission Will Occupy Rocham- | beau Apartments Until Work Is Completed. Coincident with an announcement | today that the design for the apex | building to be erected at the tip of | the Federal Triangle where Pennsyl- vania end Constitution avenues meet would have to be remodeled, it was learned that the Federal Trade Com-! mission would occupy the entire struc- | ture. The. Treasury Department disclosed | that the original design for the build- ing would be revised, and preliminary | studies already have been started to determine the changes that will be | necessary before a contract for its con- struction is awarded. The structure | will be erected under a P. W. A. ellotment. It had been planned originally to| quarter the Fine Arts Commission, th National Capital Park and Planni Commission and the local park g in the new building. These orgaghiza- tions, however, will be assigned space in the new Interior Departmefit Build- ing, now under construction at Eighteenth and E streets. Demaray Announces Plan. Decision to turn the new Apex Building over to the Federal Trade Commission was announced by A. E. Demaray, associate director of the Na- tional Parks Service of the Interior Department, which has charge of space allocation for Government buildings in Washington. The original design for the Apex | Building was prepared by Bennett Parsoms & Frost, architects of Chi- cago.’ several years ago, when it was inte'nded to have the building accom- madate three or four of the smaller $ommissions of the Government. Now, however, it has been decided instead to use the building for the } Federal Trade Cosmission, which is to be ousted from its temporary build- ing at Twenty-first street and Consti- tution avenue to make way for the new Federal Reserve Board Building. Studies of the plans will be ncees- | sary to accommodate the building | p Clown Sued he Fp WASHINGTON, D. for Divorce WIFE FINDS LITTLE HUMOR IN HUSBAND. Frank Portillo, Washington's No. 1 clown and kiddie favorite, with .his 1935 presentation of “The Horse With the Lavender Eyes." By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. RLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va, November 14.—Life as the wife of a clown is not much of a circus, according to Mrs. Elva Lee Chew Portillo, who filed suit yesterday in Arlington County Circuit Court for limited | divorce from Francisco Portillo of 67 | photography, oil painting and maga- K street northeast, Washington. Once a performer beneath the big tops of Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, Sells Floto and other famous circuses, Portillo, now emploved at the Government Printing Office, has brought laughter to thousands of Washington youngsters with his painted face, silly costumes and clowning antics. To them he is funny “Francisco the Clown.” According to Mrs. Portillo’s com- plaint, filed through her attorney, Arthur C. Stickley, her domestic life —A. P. Photo. was lacking in humor, however. The complaint charges that Portillo | “failed to support and provide a home | i for the complainant, but instead | squandered money upon his many hobbies such as books, pictures, ciown | costumes, ventriloquism, cartooning, magic, correspondence courses in » ening Sfap WITH SUNDAY MORNING X9 MEDICAL WORLD GIVEN CHALLENGE BY DR. RUHLAND Policy of Service to All Held Vital in Talk to D. C. Society. SICKNESS HELD BEYOND MERE INDIVIDUAL STATUS “State” Medicine Question Raised but Dismissed by Health Officer. Health Officer George C. Ruhland has thrown out a challenge to the medical world to work out “a reason- able and constructive policy that will make medical service available to the average man at a reason- able cos The statement was contained in an address he de- ¥ livered last night to 250 members of the District Medical Society > on the subject “The Newer Pub- lic Health.” It was the third bi- ennial Davidson lecture. Dr. Ruhland champloned the wis- dom of expansion of public health service in the fleld of sickness preven- tion and health promotion. In both these flelds, he declared, public health will continue essentially in the role of Dr. Rubland. His basic conception was that sick- | ness is not an individual matter, but He raised the question of “state” medi- cine or some form of socialism or com- munism as applied to public health programs. He dismissed these suggestions with the statement: “The American spirit of self-reliance * * * and the fact zines.” It is also further alleged tnat “a large portion” of the defendant’s money “was being lavished on other women to buy gifts and entertain- ment for them,” and that “the de- fendant received letters couched in | endearing terms from numerous women."” | The complaint states the couple | were married at Staunton, Va., in No- | vember of 1926 and that Portillo de- serted the complainant in September, 11934, plans to the new tenant—the Federal | ‘Trade Commission. The Treasury Department will make a careful re- view of the plans of Bennett Parsons and Frost, and it is altogether likely that some “major changes” will have to be made, at least within the build- ing. before the working drawings can be put in shape for writing of specifi- cations so the job can be put on the | market. This will delay actual con- structon of the building. But there was no definite indication today ss‘ to how long that delay will be. The Apex Building, for which P. W. A this week allotted $3,665,000 is part of the original design of the Federal Triangle, as worked out by the origmal Board of Architectural consultants of the Treasury Depart- | ment, in co-operation with the Treas- ury Department itself, the Fine Arts relief. the District government soon | Commission, and others. | While there have been reports that John Russell Pope, architect of the imposing Archives Building. which | now stands at the eastern end of the Federal Triangle, was opposed to the building of the Apex Building, on the ground that it would cut off the | avenue view of his Archives, spokes- men for Pope, have denied this re- peatedly. They explain that Pope was which planned the entire triangle, to include the Apex Building. and that | when he designed the Archives he | did it with a view to having another building put on the triangle tip. Had | the Archives been intended for the spearhead of the triangle, it was pointed out, Pope would have made the eastern front of Archives of an entirely different design. As it stands today, it was designed to front the Apex Building, on the other side of Seventh street. Many Agencies Mentioned. Several different agencies have been assigned tentatively at various times to the apex site of the Federal Tri- angle. At one time it was considered most appropriate to have the United States Coast Guard there, with: the symbolism of its ship forming the tip of the triangle facing Capitol Hili. Several other commissions were men- tioned, including the former Public Buildings Commission, National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission and Fine Arts Commission, all having to do with construction here in Wash- ington. The site for the apex building formerly was filled with business houses, but was cleared long ago, and has now been filled, graded and seeded grass. It is surrounded by a low ‘wooden fence. The Federal Trade Commission can- Tot wait until its new home in the Apex is finished, however, to move out to make way for the Federal Reserve Board construction. It will move temporarily to the .Rbchambeau Apartments, on Connecticut avenue, &nd an adjoining building. Included in the new Interior De- partment Building, which is slated to be completed in December of next year, provision will be made for an exhibition hall to be shared by the Pine Arts Commission and the Na- tlonal Capital Park and Planning ‘Commission. The Federal Trade Commission has taken on additional duties in the last few years, including work on new se- | curities. Several days ago the division of Government space control an- | nounced that the commission was be- ipg moved from its present temporary quarters at Twentieth street and Con- stitution avenue into the Rochambeau &nd adjoining building. There it will femain until the supervising archi- tect’s office of the Treasury Depart- mhent, with the aid of some $3,600,000 of P. W. A. funds, granted a few days ago by Secretary Ickes, has the Apex B’udinz ready for occupancy. D.C. IMPROVEMENT PLANS ADVANGED President Approves Four Projects Which Will Cost $1,138,593. Under the egis of the Federal Gov- ernment in the program for giving steady work to the unemployed on will embark on projects for improve- ment and extension of its sewerage system, at a total cost of $1,138,593. President Roosevelt has stamped {his approval on four projects pre- | permanent Summer health camp for { viously recommended by Public Works | tuberculosis patients. | Administrator Ickes and Works Prog- | ress Administrator Hopkins. The | programs have one more hurdle to| Tuberculosis Sanatorium’ at Glenn | cross, the necessary approval of Con- | Dale, Md. The District's only “pre- troller General McCarl. As soon as a that is given Treasury agents are ex- | old Tuberculosis Hospital grounds at | member of the board of consultants pected to give Commissioner Allen Fourteenth and Upshur streets, where word of the allotmen: of tunds. District Will Give $310,591.° Of the grand total cost of the proj- ects the District would supply $310,- 1591, either in cash or in kind. Word of the presidential approval settles an issue which some weeks ago caused a dispute between Hopkins and Ickes over which one should have jurisdiction over the projects. This was ironed out by resubmission of some of the items so that part of them remained with Hopkins and others went, to Ickes. More than 1,000 men would be given work under the program under Hop- kins and this would raise the total engaged under the banner of the W. P. A. to about 9,000. The President approved the pro- posed grant of $88,500 for extension of the sanitary sewer system in Luzon Valley, north of Walter Reed Hospital, which is designed to greater reduce | pollution of Rock Creek now occurring during heavy rains. For this project the District would advance $108,000, making the total cost $196,500. Three Other Projects. The three other projects would be under the W. P. A. One is for con- | costing a total of $381,978, of which | the District would advance $57,634. | Another, is for construction of storm water sewers, trunk sewers and re- placement of old lines at a total cost of $514,743, of which the District would pay $132,957. The other project is a mosquito con- trol program to cost $45,372, with the District providing $12,000 of this sum. The White House previously had dis- played an interest in the need for mos- quito control. R ——— 5,000 HAIL ORCHESTRA Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor, and the National Symphony Orchestra, row on a Southern tour, were given an ovation by an audience of 5,000 in Atlanta last night, C. C. Cappel, man- | ager of the orchestra, reported to Cor- coran Thom, president of the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra Associa- tion, in a telegram today. “Dr. Kindler won the hearts of a like number of Atlanta children Wednesday afternoon with one of his typical student concerts,” OCappel wired, Dr. Kindler and his men play in Memphis, Tenn., tonight. | struction of a number of service sewers, | | their dogs, W.P.A CONSIDERS HEALTH PROJECT | Permanent Tuberculosis Camp Facilities Approved. An important new link in District | facilities for combating the tubercu- | losis problem may be established un- | der a project for giving employment to persons on the relief roster. | Federal Works Progress officials had before them today a proposal | from Commissioner Allen to build a | The camp would be operated in | conjunction with the Children's ventorium” is a small camp at the | 60 children have been given care. there are 65,000,000 persons with pri- ! vate life insurance and 45,000,000 with independent savings accounts, are pretty good guarantees against a rapid spread of collectivism.” Health Campaign Winning. The address was given at a time when Dr. Ruhland is beginning to see success for his months of campaign- ing for new public measures to com- bat the District’s high tuberculosis death rate, for the expansion of the District’s public health nursing serv- ice and his promotion of the cause of more adequate school medical inspec- tion service, including immunization of children against diphtheria and other communicable diseases. Dr. Ruhland came into office last March 1 to declare at once that the District can “buy” a greatly improved public health condition through proper provision for public health measures. He believes communicable diseases, as they now exist, can be elimifated tion measures. Chronic diseases, he believes, are particularly the problem for the family and the private phy- sician. He emphasizes that the public health promotion is in the direction of health promotion rather than “per- formance” in treatment. Health Held Social Matter. health measures through a long pe- riod, Dr. Ruhland stated to the Med- ical Society last night: “In the first place, the health of and responsibility and, secondly, as follows from this, medical care in its widest sense for every individual is an essential condition for maximum effi- ciency and happiness in a civilzed communty. “The ideal of this viewpoint can- not be challenged. What must be Has D. C. Board 0. K. | The project would cost $79.200 and | | give work to 93 persons on ihe Dis.| trict relief list. The project was | | adopted late yesterday by the District | Works Projects Board, headed by Maj. | | Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, | and including William C. Cleary, as- | | sistant deputy works administrator, /and Ross Haworth, administrative assistant to Commissioner Allen. It was forwarded to the Federal W. P. A. with the ffll approval of Allen, District works administrator. It bears the support of Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the Dis- trict Tuberculosis Association, who aided in development of the plan. When the Glenn Dale sanatoria de- velopment is completed, there will be 700 beds for children and adults, said Mrs. Grant. “But we should have more than a children’s hospital,” she | added. “Many children can be faved entirely from active tuberculosis if they are given proper care before the disease progresses.” Free Cases Increase. Registrations for the free X-ray tests offered by the District Health Department in its tuberculosis case- finding campaign have increased to 3,289, it wids announced meanwhile by Mrs. Winifred M. Schepler, director of the project. The registrations so far are di- vided about equally as to the three sections of the city which were marked off for purposes of the survey. In each of these areas the number of deaths from tuberculosis last year numbered 200. The first district includes the area from Massachusetts avenue north to Jowa avenue and from North Capitol street to Sixteenth street. The sec- ond district embraces the section in the northwest to the west of Sixteenth street and south of Massachusetts avenue. The third area includes all of the northeast and southeast sec- tions of the city. Each district is in charge of an assistant and staff of field workers. Would License Dog Owners. SEATTLE, Wash., November 14 (). —Licenses for dog owners as Well as their pets are sought by Mrs. Mabel V. McGill, Humane Society secretary. She urged the City Council to require owners to present testimony of their intention to be “patient and kind” to considered most carefully, however, is the method by which medical care for the masses is to be secured. “Is it to be in the form of com- munism, as in Soviet Russia? Is it to be in some form of socialism, as in Continental Europe? Are we to hav: state medicine and will public departments of health be the agencies | through which such service will be offered to the public? “These are considerations that can- not be simply waved aside as of no consequence. We must realize that the history of the development of medical practice in the past shows that the physician’s position‘in soci- ety was never determined by the physician himself, but by the society he was serving. . Leadership Held Needed. “To what extent public opinion and action in the matter of public health service can be led along safe and con- structive lines will depend largely upon what wise and purposeful lead- ership the medical profession can bring to the problem. “Neither a policy of purposeless drifting nor one of violent opposition to all progress will serve the needs of the situation. A reasonable and constructive policy that will make medical service available to the aver- age man at a reasonable cost must be worked out. “Fortunately, it does not appear that there is any necessity for pre- cipitate action. Surely the fear of the development of a Communistic state in this county can be definitely put aside. The American spirit of self-reliance, which, fortunately, has largely survived the depression, and the fact that, as Frank R. Kemp assures_us, there are still 65,000,000 persons carrying private life insurance and 45,000,000 with independent sav- ings accounts, are pretty good guar- antees against a rapid spread of collectivism. “In the meantime the practice of public health will move chiefly in two main channels, namely, sickness prevention and health promotion.” Concluding this discussion, Dr. Ruh- land said: “To inform the public regarding the possibilities of disease prevention and to urge the public to seek such protec- tion, either at the hands of the fam- ily physician, or, when this is not possible, through public agencies, that is the role which public health has selected for itself. “It must, in turn, be the responsi- C., THURSDAY, through proper public health promo- | After tracing the nistory of public | every individual is a social concern | | action declaring .factual teaching of NOVEMBER 14, 1935. Two. Stratosphere Flyers Arrive Machine Carrying Record of Their 14-Mile Ascent Into Space Capt. Albert W. Stevens and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, Army officers who reached an altitude of about 14 miles above the earth in a balloon flight last Monday, were greeted at Union Station this morning by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Soclety, sponsors of the flight, and Brig. Gen. Westover, head of the Army Air Corps. Left to right, are: Dr. Grosvenor, Capt. Stevens, Capt. Anderson and Gen. Westover. Carefully Guarded. —A. P. Photo. BY JOHN C. HENRY. ‘Two Army officers, who have been higher above the earth than any other human beings, were still “up in the air” today as they reached Washington preparatory to making a study of records of their flight. Faced with a battery of newsreel and newspaper cameramen, plus about 'a score of reporters, Capt. A. W. lstevm.s and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, who Monday made a balloon flight of “mme 14 miles into the stratosphere, | received the congratulations of Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the a stimulator rather than a performer. | National Geographic Society, which | | was sponsor of the flight. | More accustomed to flying than to cameras. With this ordeal out the w. the two officers and Capt. Randolph P, Williams, weather officer for the epochal flight, proceeded to the War Department to pay their respects to their service superiors. For the next few days, however, virtually all of their time will be spent in assorting and studying the photographs and records of the trip. Capts. Stevens and Anderson later were complimented by President | Roosevelt. The flyers were accom- panied to the White House by As- sistant Secretary of War Woodring. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff of ;the Army. and Brig. Gen. Oscar West- | over. acting chief of the Army Air Corps. Meteorograph Guarded. Meanwhilé the meteorograph on which the exact altitude is registered is being guarded jealously by Dr. W. G. Brombacher, physicist at the Bu- reau of Standards, who was designated by the National Aeronautical Associa- tion to represent it at the scene. Sealed in the presence of a notary | public before being placed in the bal- Society this morning. and later in the day it was taken to the Bureau of Standards. It is expected to show an loon, the meteorograph was broughs to the office of the National Geographic | altitude of about 73,000 feet, or about | 14 miles. { Although no major mishaps attended the flight the ballooning captains re- | ported a few slight “embarrassments™ | during the trip. First of these, de- | | scribed by Capt. Anderson, the pilot, | occurred at the take.off. | “We had cleared the 450-ft. rim of | the bowl from which we took off” | Capt. Anderson said, “when we sud- denly encountered a down-current of | air that was forcing us back. We | threw off 750 pounds of ballast right away and it started us.up again.” Ballast in Form of Dust. | The ballast used was lead dust, | | ahout 3,800 pounds of it being car- one that affects society as a whole. | acting, they spent more than an hou: | rjeq in bags on the outside of the in posing and speechmaking for the | gondola. The dust form was used in. . stead of solid lead in order to guard | against injury to persons on the | ground. When the landing was made | Monday afternoon about 480 pounds were still unused. | A mystifying and startling incident | was noted at one period near the ceil- ing of their flight when clouds of smoke-like vapor were seen rising from the sides of the gondola. | “The air was perfectly clear around | us.” Capt. Stevens explained, “but at irregular intervals near the peak of the ascension these clouds of vapor could be seen through the windows of | the car. It looked like smoke, but we | structure was fireproof. We still don't | know the full explanation of it.” i Capt. Anderson also reported some | disappointment resulting from at- | tempts to have lunch. Reaching the ceiling, where they rested for about ‘an hour, the captain reached for a | sandwich which had been supplied as | part of & prepared lunch. It was o | cold, however, that it was nearly| frozen and was inedible. Outside, he added, the recorded temperature was about 80 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. ! In a skillful landing, the balloon was brought down without disturbing & single one of the scientific instru- | quently was claimed. ments, although ne ground crew was at the spot. Because of this good fortune the officers and others inter- ested are expecting some very con- clusive data from the flight. Paying high tribute to their balloon, Explorer II, both officers claimed an even greater altitude could be reached by the use of hydrogen instead of helium. Capt. Stevens estimated a Society and General PAGE B—1 HAZEN T0 APPEAL FOR LUMP SUM OF 8317500 IN 1557 Special Plea Will Be Made for Budget Bureau Aid in Drive. HEARING ON DISTRICT NEEDS TO BE ASKED New Series of Meetings Called for Study of Readjustments in Taxation System. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen planned today to make a special plea to the Budget Bureau in support of & Federal payment of $8.317,500 toward the National Capital in the 1937 bud- get now being considered at the Fed- eral agency. ‘While appearing before Federal bud- get officials, he was to ask that the Commissioners be given a special hear- ing on this and other major needs in the District budget proposals at tne conclusion of the regular survey of re- quested estimates. The Budget Bureau is expected | conclude its routine consideration the District budget by the middle | next week. Qutlines Special Needs. Aside from stressing the justice cf | the proposed increase in the Federal payment, Commissioner {azen wishes change of gas would mean an addi- tional mile of elevation if other con- ditions remained the same. He ex- pressed doubt, however, that man ever will be able to go above 80,000 feet while carrying scientific instruments. All readings of the many instru- ments were photographed frequently during the trip, thus providing a check on manual tabulations. In ad- dition to recordings of the meteoro- graph, altitude was checked by two barographs on the outside of the gondola and by vertical photographs which were taken every 90 seconds from beneath the craft. Capt. Stevens, an ace air photographer with the Army during the World War, is plan- ing to develop these important pic- tures himself. Gondola to Be Exhibited. The gondola of .Explorer II is now on its way to Washington for exhibi- tion at the National Geographic Build- | ing. The flight makes a successful climax knew it couldn't be because the whole | to efforts of the society for about two| years to have the stratosphere explored. In 1934, Explorer I made an ascent and a few months ago Explorer II was scheduled for one. On the latter oc- casion, however, the huge bag ripped and the flight was deferred until this week. The official world record for such a flight is held by Comdr. Settle and Maj. Fordney, established in 1933 at about 11.6 miles. More recently, a Russian crew made an ascent and a record of more than 13 miles subse- The Russian crew, however, was killed when their craft crashed, and the records have not been accepted as official. EDUCATION STAND Representative Hildebrandt Gives View on Commu- nism Question. Representative Hildebrandt, Demo- crat, of South Dakota has addressed a letter to the Board of Education com- | mending it and Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman on their recent \ Communism in the public schools legal and banning advocacy of the same doctrine. minority opinions in the schools,” Hil- debrandt wrote, “is directly contrary to the spirit of the Bill of Rights of our Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the principles of the two most outstanding Americans in our history, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Reason Combats Error. “Jefferson well said, ‘Error is harm- less when reason is left free to com- bat it Lincoln was no less emphatic in defending free speech than Jeffer- son. “It would be both tyrannical and absurd to command the teachers of the District of Columbia to refrain from speaking in class rooms of any political or economic philosophy, whether advocated by a large or a small group. “On the other hand, any attempt by a teacher to conduct propaganda in favor of or against any political or economic philosophy should result in prompt punishment. Corner Stone of Republic. “Certainly in the tweatieth century, in a land where broad and compre- hensive education is a corner stone of the Republic, we must not permit those who are bigoted and those who suffer from intellectual jitters to shackle teachers to such an extent that they can teach practically nothing except such generally accepted facts as that the earth is round (which was once a minority opinion, too), as the multi- plication table, and as the actual dates of leading events in American his- R “I am very gratified at the rational and sane stand taken by your board and by Mr. Prettyman, and I believe my opinion is shared by the over- whelming majority of Washington citizens.” bility of the medical profession to adopt more widely the methods of pre- ventive practice and to work out methods whereby these services can be offered to the mass of the people at a cOst that the average man can afford to pay. Along these lines it would seem that private practice and public health can develop without conflict and for the general good of the public that must be served.” LAUDED IN'LETTER “The proposal to ban mention of | 190 Per Cent of Kindergarten Pupils Found Nearly 90 per cent of the kindergar- ington public schools have some phys- | ical defect, according to medical ex-| amination results for the year ended June 30, which are included in the an- | nual report of Health Officer George | C. Ruhland. | Complete physical examinations | were given 10,012 first grade and kin- | dergarten pupils during the past flscllj year, Dr. Ruhland told the Commis- sioners. Among these groups, only 10.98 per cent were found to have no recognizable defects. District medical inspectors exam- ined 8,869 pupils in grades higher than the kindergarten and first grade. It was found that among all children examined there was an average of 2.07 defects per pupil. Not counting voluntary absences from school, medical inspectors or- dered 4.409 exclusions from classes during the past fiscal year due to ill- ness. Of this total, 877, were for im- petigo and 651 because of colds. Many Dental Defects. The District’s four school dental inspectors examined 26,990 pupils last year and found 77.2 per cent had dental defects. Dr. Ruhland again cited in the an- nual report, the first he has sub- mitted to the Commissioners, the prevalence of tuberculosis in the Dis- trict and the fact the National Cap- ital has the second highest tubercu- losis death rate for comparable cities. Its rate is twice as high as that for the United States as a whole. “There were five fewer deaths from tuberculosis during 1934 (the calendar year) than during the previous year, but the rate of 123 per 100,000 popu- lation remains far too high,” he said. “Furthermore, there appears to be a definite trend upward, not only in the number of cases occurring over the five-year period (ending with 1934), but the death rate has defi- nitely increased during the past three years over 1930 and 1931. “At present, the death rate due to tuberculosis is higher than any other city of its size, except San Antonio, Tex., and twice as high as for the United States as a whole.” 1,139 Cases in 1934. During the calendar year 1934, Dr. Ruhland reported, 1,139 cases and 609 deaths were reported due to tuberculosis, while during 1933 there | per 100.000 population was 53.9 for | | He reported that in the year ended | greatest, said Dr. Ruhland. were 1,100 cases and 614 deaths, with fatality rates of 53.5 and 53.8, re- spectively. These figures referred to pulmonary and other communicable forms of the dlnq‘. to Be Defective Dr. Ruhland Reports 10,012 Children in First Grades Were Given Physical Examination in Past Year. The colored population of the Dis- ‘en and first grade pupils in the Wash- | trict suffers much more from tubercu- | losis than the white, the report shows. For the calendar year 1934 there were | an average of 1.23 tuberculosis cases | among each 1,000 white persons and | 5.08 among the colored. The death rate | white persons and 303.6 for the colored. ‘The percentage of deaths to cases was found to be 43.7 per white per- | son and 59.8 for the colored. Dr. Ruhland recommended that a larger percentage of the pre-school age children be protected against/| diphtheria by having them immunized. June 30, 5,964 Schick tests were made | in the schools, at the Health Depart- ment vaccination clinic and at the child hygiene centers. Of this num- ber, 2,665 tests were negative. A total | of 4,693 children were immunized with toxoid. Of this number only 2644 were administered to children under the age of 4 years. It is among these early-age groups that susceptibiilty to diphtheria is the Club Will Give Play. The University Club will present the | three-act comedy “Apron Strings” at | the club hall next Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock. The cast is under the direction of M. Forney Reese. to outline generally special needs for increasing the force of the Police De- partment and requested zppropriations for the Fire Department in a recapitu- lation of budget arguments. The current Federal payment toward | expenses of the Capital is $5.700,000. | Last year the Commissioners proposed | to increase this to $8,317,000, but the | Budget Bureau reduced it to a gross of | $5,700,000 since that figure had been adopted by Congress the previous year, District officials have argued the Budget Bureau has the right to recommend an increase as well as to propose a decrease in District requests. | The Senate last year approved the | increased Federal payment, but it was | knocked out in the House. ‘The $8,317,500 figure is an average of Federal payments over the past 10 years. New Meetings Called For. Meanwhile, District officials pree pared to pick up the series of confer- ences on proposed readjustment of the District tax system. Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman, chair- | man of the Special Tax Committee, has called for a new series of meet- ings beginning next Wednesday. Expectations that some increased taxes and modifications of the present tax system are being voiced. Officials explained that maintenance and op- erating expenses have been increasing at the rate of about $1,000,000 a year, while sums available for capital im« provements have been decreasing in recent years. MISSING PERSON \ SEARCH IMPEDED Lack of Personnel Blocks Crea- tion of Special Squad, Says Brown. Lack of adequate police strength has blocked creation of a special police squad to aid the Woman's Bureau in searching for missing persons, it was learned today. Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown re- vealed he has been considering such a plan for more than a year, but has not been able to put it into operation because the large number of police- men which this work would require have not been available. Maj. Brown said he feels this spe- cial squad would require a large nums= ber of men if the work was to be done satisfactorily. Members of this squad would be assigned exclusively the task of tracing persons reported missing. Meanwhile, only one person was added to the missing list since yester= day and a number of persons recently reported missing have been located by the Woman's Bureau. The latest case is that of 13-year-old Beverly Wal- | ters, 705 Kentucky avenue southeast, who has not been seen since she left her home last night to spend the night at the German Orphan Home. 2100 Good Hope road southeast, where she was formerly an inmate. Among the persons located by the Woman's Bureau are Raymond Vidi, 16, of 213 E street: Roy Irby, 14. of 462 G street southwest. and a num- ber of out-of-town cases. The Woman's Bureau reported they have broadcast 89 lookouts for miss- ing persons since November 1.. In several cases, lookouts were sent out for the same person more than once. Forty-six of these approximately 80 cases have been cleared up, leaving some 40-odd cases unsolved. Mrs. Bénjamin Harrison Sees Volumes of Husband’s Papers By the Assoclated Press. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, whose late husband left the White House 42 years ago, yesterday renewed ac- quaintance with the Capital. In a firm, large hand, she wrote her name in the registry of the rare book room of the Library of Congress, “Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. New York.” She visited the new Folger Shakespeare Library, and viewed the marble ex- terior of the new Supreme Court Building. But the real object of her visit, and the place where she lingered longest, was the manuscript division of the Congressional Library, where her hus- band’s papers are. They are being bound, and Mrs. Harrison looked over the 30 volumes already done and the 30 in process of binding. When all are completed there will be about 300 Harrison vol- umes. N At 77, Mrs. Harrison is dean among the six women honored with the postal frank because they are widows of Presidents. The others are Mrs. Thomas Preston, the former Mrs. Grover Cleveland, 71; Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 74; Mrs. William Howard Taft, 74; Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, 63, and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. 56. Mrs. Harrison was never “First Lady,” having married Benjamin Har- rison in 1896, three years after his term of office ended. But. as Mrs, Mary Scott Dimmick, she was a White House guest the night President Hare rison gave a final dinner to his suce cessor, Grover Cleveland. In fact, she was described as one of the official family during the Harrison adminis~ tration society columns, being a close friend of Harrison’s first wife, the former Caroline Lavinia Scott, who died during his ferm of office.