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Washington News BOARDREFUSES 10 PROBE ITS POLICE Commissioners Agree. to Furnish Fund for Inves- tigator, However. DECLARE CHARGES ARE NOT SPECIFIC Bond Racket Charges Expanded to Include Attorney and State Trooper. The Prince Georges County grand jury has announced its in- tention of making a thorough in- vestigation of charges being pre- sented to it by the Keystone Automobile Club involving the wholesale arrest of Washington motorists, victims of an alleged bonding-fining racket. ‘Washington motorists, victims of the alleged racket, are re- quested to communicate with the club’s attorney, Harvey L. Cobb, 1125 National Press Building, National 8608 or National 8816. B a Sta® Correspondent 0. The Btar. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., October 27—~While refusing to conduct an in- dependent investigation of Prince Georges County police-bonding pro- cedure, the County Board of Commis- sioners this Afternoon agreed to pay expenses for investigators to assist the States attorney, should he want such assistance. By a 3-2 vote the board quashed the suggestion of Commissioner Vinton D. Cockey that it institute its own inquiry into charges recently con- sidered by the grand jury. The board's refusal to make the investiga- tion, according to Cockey, was pi pt- ed by “the lack of specific cmses against policemen brought before board.” If the State’s attorney desires to employ trained investigators, as rec- ommended by the grand jury yester- day, to assist him prior to a recall of the panel the board will pay necessary expenses. Refusal Is Surprise. * The commissioners’ refusal to con- @uct their own investigation was a surprise, since several board members had previously stated they wished “to get to the bottom of it all.” Voting in favor of the separate in- quiry with Cockey was Commissioner Harry McNamee. Opposing the pro- posal were Chairman Perry Boswell, Joseph H. Blandford and James B. TTy. According to Cockey, W. R. C. Con- nick, grand jury foreman, had “ex- pressed a desire to appear before the group,” but the board did not respond. ‘Two Riverdale residents appeared be- fore the commissioners to make gen- eral complaints concerning police treatment in their community. State Trooper Accused. ‘The county’s “bargain fine” inves- tigation, already involving part of the county police force and at least one bondsman, expanded yesterday to in- clude a Maryland attorney and an unidentified State policeman. ‘While the grand jury in Upper Marl- boro, Md,, recommended a thorough inquiry of charges that Washington motorists have been victimized through police-bonding collusion, Keystone Automobile Club lawyers, collecting evidence for a special session of the jury, revealed an affidavit showing this newest advance in the investiga- tion. The .declaration, made by Henry C. Wright of 1422 8 street southeast, has been filed with some 50 others col- lected in six weeks of probing into the police bonding racket. Bribe Offers Reported. Shortly before Wright's affidavit was made public, three other wit- nesses reported that attempts to “buy them off” had been made. Failing to : identify the would-be bribers, the ‘witnesses reported the incidents to At~ torneys Harvey L. Cobb and Walter Newrath, with offices in the National Press Building. One of the complainants said he had ' been offered $500 for “certain re- ceipts.” Another witness reported an offer which “would make it worth while” to drop his complaint in the case. Raymond R. Iannucci of 308 Sixth street declared he had been ap- proached at his home Sunday night when two men, one of whom fluently spoke Italian, agreed to pay him $140 “before midnight.” Iannucci filed suit against: Bondsman Elmer Pumphrey of Suitland, Md., for $140 in the Upper in Howard County near the Prince Georges line by a State trooper, -who . charged him with drunken driving and reckless driving. :|form of a contest, with a cup, the Janet Grimm and a neighbor’s dog. The Foening Sfar ' WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1936. R PRINCE GEORGES || Girl “Walks” Dogs for Fee Advertising of Novel Service Takes ‘All Her Capital, Just 83 Cents. —Star Staff Photo. BY PHILIP LOVE. 16-YEAR-OLD Western High School girl, so “crazy about dogs” that she’s been looking after those of friends and neighbors without charge for years, has set herself up as a professional “dog-taker-for-a-walk.” With 83 cents in capital, which she borrowed from her mother for use as an “advertising appropriation,” Janet Grimm is determined to make “a big success” of her venture— enough of a success, at least, she says, to be able to repay the loan. Janet, who lives at 1733 Twentieth street, has had dogs “off and on” since she was about 6 years old, she said today, adding: “And when I haven't had one of my own, I've borrowed other peo- ple’s—just for the fun of taking care of them. I love dogs—all kinds of dogs—and always have.” ‘Wants Dog of Her Own. Janet, daughter of Prederick Grimm, retired Army Air Crops lieutenant, has been without a dog of her own for seven or eight months now, but she’s hoping to get one—"a cute little Schnauzzer pup”—almost any day. “Seems like every time I get a nice dog,” she explained, “we move, orI something happens to the dog, or | something. We've lived in Chevy Chase, Md., and Honolulu, Hawali, and we just moved here from Alex- andria less than two weeks ago, and— well, each time I've had to give up | “One of my dogs died of distemper 10 CHEST PLAYS TO BE BROADCAST Amateur Groups to Present Series of ‘Programs Beginning November 9. A series of ten 15-minute radio pro- grams arranged by the Community Chest will be presented over Station WMAL, beginning November 9, # players from local amateur dramatic groups. The broadcasts, entitled “Other People’s Money,” will be given from 7:15 to 7:30 nightly, except November 14 and 15. They are in charge of & committee headed by Harold Allen Long of the Arts Club. X Ten amateur groups will present 10 one-act plays selected from a group of 35 successfully presented in ‘Chi- cago and adapted to a Washington locale. The participants will be the Bartfield Players, Players’ Club, Pierce Hall Players, Blackfriars’ Guild, Mont- gomery Players, National City Play- ers, drama group of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, the Troupers and the Little Theater of Takoma Park. The presentations will take the gift of Lansburgh & Bros, to be awarded to the winning group. Judges will be Miss Caroline McKinley, Den- nis Connell and Marvin T. Herrick. Representatives of all participants will meet tomorrow night at Com- munity Chest headquarters, 1101 M street, to discuss final plans and draw for radio time. and another was stolen. I've had aire- dales, setters—in fact, just about every kind you can think of. The last one was a—well, he was the last of a litter of Scotties, but he didn’t turn out right, so I don't know what you'd call him. He was a cute little rascal, though, and I've missed him a lot since he ran away.” Janet’s parents like dogs, too, she said, but they're “not so crazy about ‘em” as she is. In fact, she added, | they've made it clear that her work | with dogs is her own responsibility— that she’ll have to do the walking and give them whatever other attention her clients demand. Secured Loan From Mother. With the loan from her mother Janet inserted the following adver- tisement in the “Situations Wanted” column of The Staf: WALK DOGS or keep week ends, by high school girl fond of animals; vicinity Dupont Circle. Decatur 0388 after 4:30. . Rates? Well, Janet’s a little vague there. A senior at Western, she’s will- ing to walk with any dog for an hour and a half or so, beginning when she’s excused from class at 3 p.m., for some- thing like 20 cents. As to the week end part of her service, however, that, she said, will have to be worked out with her clients. Asked if she'd accept an engagement to walk & dog which lived so far away that she’d have to spend carfare to call for it, she said: “Well, I'd go pretty far. I'm crazy about dogs, you know!” RIGHT IS PRESSED ON COURT-MARTIAL Oberlin Carter, 80, Awaits Hear- ing Date on New Action to Clear Record. Oberlin M. Carter, 80-year-old former Army officer, today was await- ing & hearing date before the District Court as the next step in 38 years-of efforts to overturn an Army court martial decision. Convicted of fraud, dismissed from the Army and sentenced to five yeass’ imprisonment, Carter paid the pen- alty, but has never abandoned at- tempts to clear his record. Yesterday he filed an amended bill of complaint naming the War Department as sole defendant and it is court action on this motion that is now awaited. A graduate of West Point, Carter for several years was Army District Engineer at Savannah, Ga. Later, he was engineers’ representative on the Isthmian Canal Commisison, favoring the Panamanian route over the Nicaraguan. While on duty as mili- tary attache at the American Em- bassy, he was recalled to face charges of fraud for contracts let while in the Savannah post. His conviction fol- tion from Presidents, congressional investigating committees and' the courts, o Five Out of Every Six Pass D. C. Driver’s About one applicant for-a driver's secure & permit, records of the Bu- reau of Vehicles and Traffic show. N {1 :igg; Test First Time h&'hltf-hdl’h‘dlh\l‘m;t:’ ought to do. Color blindness e permit, HOPKING ASSAILS MANDAMUS SUIT FORW.P.A. FILES Terms G. 0. P. Action “Friv- olous, Scandalous, and for Political Purposes.” ANSWERS FILED IN COURT JUST BEFORE CLOSING Attorney General Assistant Says Technicalities Bar Hearing Prior to Election. ‘The Government has characterized the mandamus suit brought last week by a New Jersey Républican group to compel disclosure of W. P. A. records as “frivolous, scandalous and imperti- nent, and solely for political purposes.” The answer was filed just before closing time yesterday at District Court. John S. J. Yost, special assist- ant to the Attorney General, said he doubted that the litigation would reach a hearing much before election day because of preliminary legal tech- nicalities which must be met. Such delay would defeat the object of the suit since the information sought was to be used to inform the electorate of the “true status” of relief | administration. Assertions by the Republican peti- tioners that W. P. A. is a vital issue in the current presidential campaign were termed irrelevant in the Govern- ment answer. The Republican group, headed by former Senator Walter E. Edge, had asserted that all facts con- cerning the disbursement of the huge relief appropriations should be avail- able to the voters in order that they might intelligently exercise their franchise. Breach of Trust Alleged. Charging the administration with & “breach of trust” in using W. P. A. statistics while denying them to the Republicans, the petitioners asked for a writ of mandamus to compel Admin- istrator Harry L. Hopkins to give them access to the files. This was answered by a direct denial, Hopkins asserting through his attorneys that President Roosevelt and his supporters had not been fur- nished any information except that which is available to any one for the asking. Charges that W. P. A. officials were guilty of “gross waste and extrava- gance” were termed ‘“malicious innuendoes.” . If the petitioners have a right to inspect the records, so has any citi- zen, it was asserted, and an audit or inspection of the records necessarily would tie up a large number of Gov- ernment employes and impede the efficiency of the organization. All proper information concerning administration of W. P. A. funds already has been made public, it was asserted, but neither the petitioners nor any one else has a right to data concerning individual employes, their addresses and salaries. The Govern- ment expressed the fear that such information might be used for “po- litical solicitation and coercion.” More Affidavits Offered. Shortly before the answer was filed Justice® Joseph W. Cox denied a motion on behalf of Edge and his associates for permission to file ad- ditional afidavits supporting the suit. He ruled that the affidavits might be entered as evidence at the hear- ing, or the original petition could be amended to include them, but they could not be merely tacked on to the petition at this late date Both afidavits were executed by former New Jersey W. P. A. workers and contained allegations that ex- cessive salaries were being paid; that appointments were made for politi- cal purposes; that far more adminis- trative workers were employed than were necessary, and that published figures do not show the true cost of administration. ‘The affants were Ernest S. Hol- land, former assistant in charge of the New Jerfsey division of office management, and Daniel J. O’Haire, former chief accountant at the New Jersey headquarters. O'Haire said the administrative ' cost in New Jersey was nearly 15 per cent, rather than 1.6 per cent, as asserted by Hopkins, Has “North American Room.” ‘The National Library of Santiago, Chile, has a “North American room” containing 500,000 volumes largely from fhe United States. Pledged to G. w. U Sororities Today was pledge day for George Washington University sororities, and this group of stu- dents made varied choices. The girls and the sororities to which they pledged themselves are, left to right, front row: Mary Lou Nash, Kappa Gamma; Charlotte Rosendorf, Phi Sigma Sigma; Jean Appel, Sigma Kappa; Mary Emily Stanley, Pi Beta Phi; Phyllis Hohenstein, Chi Omega. Seaond row: Mary Harmon West, Alpha Delta Theta; Virginia Birkby, Kappa Delta. Back row: Edith Mason, Beta Phi Alpha; June Colver, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Matile Griswold, Phi Mu. HALLOWEEN QUEE SOONT0 BENANED Judges to Select Fete’s Fair Ruler Today From 20 Contestants. Washington’s Halloween queen and 12 ladies in waiting will be selected from 20 contestants at 4:30 p.m. to- day in the offices of the Greater Na- tional Capital Committee in The Star Building. The contestants, sponsored by busi- ness, civic and social groups, will be judged on the basis of personal at- tractiveness, poise and costume. Judges will be Miss Anne Fuller Ab- bott, Rev. Charles Warner, president of the Washington Rotary Club, and the following dramatic critics: Miss Betty Hynes, Herald: Andrew Kelly, Times; Don Craig, News; Nelson Bell, Post, and E. de S. Melcher, Star. Coronation Saturday. The winner will ride at the head of the parade Saturday night on a regally magnificent float. A brief coronation ceremony will be held in front of her throne on Constitution avenue between Fourteenth and Six- teenth streets, to which the queen will be escorted by Maurice Jarvis, king of the celebration, and Denis Connell, jester. After the parade, the queen’s party will go to the Shoreham Hotel for a banquet, dance, a half-hour broadcast over Station WMAL and the presentation to the queen of a silver trophy. g Entries for the parade exceed those of previous years, according to Col. E. Goring Bliss, program chairman. The deadline for entries is Friday night. Col. Bliss said there will be a record number of children partici- pants. Compete for Queen Role. ‘The queen will be selected from the following: Miss Frances O’'Connell, sponsored by the Southeast Citizens’ Association; Miss Elsie Powell, Hugh ‘Reilly Co.; Miss Ruth Adams, Hecht Co.; Miss Mary Jane Keely, Bright- wood Citizens’ Association; Miss Eve- lyn Alberts, Manor Park Citizens’ Association; Miss Marguerite Coul- bourne, Ross Jewelry Co.; Miss Eliza- beth Smallman, Universalist Players; Miss Marie Hunt, Soroptimist Club; Miss Marion L. Goshorn, Women's City Club; Miss Wilma Campbell, Lincoln Park Citizens’ Association; Miss Esther Norton, Petworth Citi- zens’ Association; Miss Myrtle Mae Johns, G. C. Murphy Co.; Miss Kay Anthony, Mayfair Restaurant Co.; Miss Ada Dameron, Lansburgh & Bros.; Miss Ann Dvorak, Anacostia Citizens’ Association; Miss Gladys Hendricks, Job’s Daughters, Bethel No. 1; Miss Lenora Straub, Lans- burgh’s Sea Food Co.; Miss Catharine Torr, Kenilworth Citizens’ Associa- tion; Miss Evelyn Fuqua, Citizens’ Association ‘of Chevy Chase, D. C, and Miss Josephine Hytrek, Veterans' Administration. Civitan Club to Hear Nimitz. Capt. C. W. Nimitz, assistant chief of the Navy Bureau of Navigation, will be principal speaker tomorrow at a luncheon meeting of the Civitan Club at the Mayflower Hotel. His subject will be “Sea Power and the United States Navy.” Higher Education for Horses 1937 Applications For Car Licenses Mailed by District Motorists Who Have Changed ‘Addresses or Hold ‘Tickets’ Warned. Applications for 1937 license plates were being mailed out from the De- partment of Vehicles and Traffic to- day, but if you have moved without giving notice of your new address, or have any unsettied traffic tickets hid- den away in the hope they will be for- gotten, don't expect to receive one. The applications are being mailed to addresses on record and will not be forwarded, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer, said. Applications are re- turned to the bureau and held to await inquiry by motorists. Motorists who do not call to inquire about their applications will not get a license. ‘Those who do call will be asked to ex- plain why they did not give notice of change of address within 72 hours, as required by law. About 3,000 moforists who have 1936 tags will have to clear up pending traffic charges before they can get their 1937 markers. Approximately 9,000 warrants have been issued for offenses which have not been cleared up because of inability to find of- fenders. These average about three warrants per motorist and include almost every charge in the traffic violation list, Van Duzer said. About 200,000 applications will be sent out, some 14,000 more than last year, and they should be received by November 15. The bureau staff will start mailing tags November 16, and plates may be obtained at the bureau office, Pennsylvania avenue and John Marshall place, beginning December 1. The plates may not be put on the cars until the latter date. SCHOOL ENTRANCE DECISION DELAYED Dr. Ballou Expected to Make Announcement Today or Tomorrow. The question of whether to permit 11-year-old Lois Kemp to enter Gor- don Junior High School, pending ac- tion on an appeal from a District Court ruling in her favor, was still undecided today after a conference between Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou, Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal and the latter’s assistant, Vernon E. West. Seal announced that “no definite conclusion” was reached at the con- ference, but added a decision may be reached late today or tomorrow morning. Seal said the question was raised as to whether it would be fair to allow the Kemp girl to enter the school while refusing admission to other non-resident pupils, He said that neither he nor West made any definite A formal order directing the school superintendent to permit the enroll- ment of Lois was signed yesterday by Justice Jennings Bailey. An ap- peal was noted immediately by West, however. Dr. Ballou has the power to deny E. Lynch, attorney for the child, has announced he would urge school offi- cials to allow Lois to enter at once. Lois is the daughter of John 8. Kemp, assistant disbursing officer in the P. W. A, —Star Staff Photo. CHEST UNIT MAPS ADVANCED DRIVE Special Assignments Group Meets Tomorrow to Make Plans. Preparing to start its drive well in advance of the regular Community Chest campaign, the Special Assign- ment Unit of the Chest will meet at the Sulgrave Club tomorrow at 4 p.m., when Joseph P. Tumuity, chair- man, will give his team captains and workers final instructions. The unit’s | campaign will be launched Novem- ber 4. Clarence Phelps Dodge, Chest presi- dent; Coleman Jennings, campaign manager; Herbert L. Willett, jr., di- rector, and A. Boyd Hunds, assistant director, will attend the meeting. Tumulty has organized eight full teams. A “sub team,” composed of Hilleary G. Hoskinson, is assigned to solicit the District Bankers’ Asso- ciation. Personnel of Unit. The Special Assignment Unit's per- sonnel is as follows: Mr. Tumulty, chairman; Richard ‘W. Hynson and Mrs. Charles A. Gold- smith, vice chairmen; John J. Mec- Donnell, secretary. Team 1—Harold N. Marsh, cap- tain; Mrs. Lester Buchanan, Edmund D. Campbell, William Floyd Crosby, J. C. Dulin, jr.; David E. Finley, W. Herbert Gill, Mrs. Christopher M. Granger, Woodson P. Houghton, Mrs. Harold N. Marsh, Mrs. Wade Martin, Fleming Newbold and Walter 8. Ufford. Team 2—P. O. Coffin, captain; Mrs. Philip O. Coffin, Mrs. James Clement Dunn, Mrs. C. C. Glover, jr.; Myron Hofer, Malcolm S. McConihe, Law- rence Proctor, Thomas Sweeney, Waverly Taylor, Miss Phyllis Thomp- son, C. Grifith Warfield and Mrs. ‘Theodore Wilkinson. Team 3—Mrs. Fedora Lewis, cap- tain; Marc 8. Goldnamer, Mrs. L. E. Harris, Miss Bertha Israel, D. J. Kauf- man, Mrs, E. I. Kaufmann, Mrs. Mark Lansburgh, Mrs. Carl Linker, Ben- jamin Ourisman, Mrs. Gustave Ring, Mrs. Harry Roller and Mrs. Alex Wolf. Team 4—Wilson Compton, captain; Mr. and Mrs. Y. E. Booker, Mrs. Wil- son Compton, Mrs. Levi Cooke, Miss Justine Corby, W. H. Courtney, W. S. Culbertson, H. Rozier Dulany, jr.; Karl D. Loos, Mrs. Albert McCartney, George Hewitt Myers, Paul Shorb and Mrs, Harper Sibley. Team 5 and Others. Team 5—F. Moran McConihe, cap- tain; Samuel Biddle, Mrs. Hutch I Cone, C. Ashmead Fuller, Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann, Rudolph Kauffmann, Mrs. S. H. Kauffmann, Lady Willmott Lewis, B. Houston McCeney, Mrs. Wil- liam P. McCracken, jr.; C. A. McKen- ney, jr.; John L. Newbold, Eugene B. Roberts and H. Spottswood White. Team 6—Frederick Bradley, cap- tain; Daniel J. Callahan, jr., Mrs. ‘Walter F. Chappell, Arthur Hellen, Edwin N. Lewis, Joseph K. McCam- mon, 3d; Mrs. Charles Carroll Mor- gan, Thomas P. Morgan, jr.; Andrew Saul, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vander Gracht. Team 7—James E. Colliflower, cap- C. De Lacey, Charles B. Dulcan, Ralph W. Lee, jr.; William J. Mc- Namars, Charles P. L. Moran, Lewis A. Payne, M. X. Wilberding an® Ford E. Young. Team 8—Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, captain; Clarence Aspinwall, Admiral Mark Bristol, Mrs. Wilbur Carr, Mrs. Charles Crawford, Mrs. Walter Dist- ler, Maj. Henry P. Erwin, Mrs. Robert V. Fleming, Mrs. John Guider, Mrs. Page Hufty, Mrs. Reginald Huide- koper, Canon Albert H. Lucas, Wil- liam Mackall and John Marshall. Team 9—Mr. Hoskinson, eaptain. “Corn on Cob With Zippers” Envisioned in New Patents Msine. Grapefruit that automatically squeezes itself. Seeds which, planted before break- than 1,000 applications have been re- ceived for patents on Vegetables, fruits, flowers and trees. Approximately 200 have been issued for such things as raspberries, carna- tions, grass for golf greens and water were granted Queen the form of monopolies to favored in- dividuals for exclusive rights over flax, hemp, currants and dye plants. creasing the Patent Office. “The list already is large, compared with that for me- chanical patents in 1836. Another century may see this branch of patent practice dominant in the field.” A Society and’ General REGISTER REVEALS MANY PAY BOOSTS FORU. 5. WORKERS Civil Service Commission Issues Report on 8,000 Employes. SALARY OF O’CONNOR INCREASED TO $15,000 J. Edgar Hoover and Hopkins Get Adyvance—McGrady’s Raise Is $1,000. Reflecting widespread pay boosts over the Government in the past two years, the 1936 edition of the Official Register made its appearance today. Issued for the first time since 1934 by the Civil Service Commission, the Register lists more than 8,000 posi- tions with the accompanying salaries, It covers the three branches of Gov- ernment and is designed to show all supervisory and administrative posts. The pay increases in many cases represent promotions that were held up while the successive economy laws were in operation. Others simply were ad= ministrative advances or in some ine stances step-ups authorized by Cone gress. Out of the entire executive branch of the Government the White House secretariat alone appears to have been overlooked in the upward trend. The various increases usually were liberal, although a comparison of this year's Register with that of 1934 shows but slight change in the Agriculture Dee partment, O’Connor Gets Increase. J. P. T. O'Connor, controller of the currency, went on the same pay basis as a member of the cabinet, with a raise from $12,000 to $15,000. Daniel W. Bell, acting director of the budget since Lewis W. Douglas stepped out, got the pay that went with the posie tion, being listed as an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury at $10,000, an advance of 1,500 over his former salary as commissioner of ace counts and deposits. Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administator, went from $10,000 to $12,000, as did the assistant admine- istrator for public works, Horatio B. Hackett. Angelo R. Class, in charge of public works investigations, is care ried at $10,000, which represents an advance’ of $2,000 over the pay re- ceived by Louis R. Glavis in that berth. Increases that ranged generally from $400 up were given to the varie ous officials in the Post Office Dee partment. “The scale was advanced preity well along the line in the inspection serve ice, the inspectors in charge of the several districts going from $4,500 to $5,600, and K. P. Aldrich, chief ine spector, from $7,000 to $8,500. Hoover’s Salary Raised. The same situation prevailed at the Justice Department, where J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of In= vestigation, went from $9,000 to $10,000, and several others got raises. James A. Johnston, warden at Alca= traz, which houses most of the erste while “public enemies,” including Al Capone, got & $500 boost, Wwhich brings his pay to $7,000. In the Labor Department, Edward F. McGrady, assistant secretary, and No. 1 “trouble shooter” in all labor disputes, was increased from $8,000 to $9,000 as was Dr. Isador Lubin, commissioner of labor statistics. The Federal Housing Administra« tion is one agency where the head man doesn’t get the biggest pay check. Stewart McDonald, adminis- trator, is shown at $10,000 and Abner Ferguson, general counsel at $12,000, BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant bandmaster. Program. March, “Col. James S. Petit, U. S. A.,* Zimmermann Overture, “Dramatic”.._._ Snoek Entre’acte, (a) “La Berceuse. (b) “Petite Serenade.” Gruenberg Excerpts from the romantic opera, “Eileen” Herbert Brazilian tango, “Buenos Giorno,” C Valse Espagnole, “La Belle Valenciana™ Finale, “Cotton Pickin’ Time in Panels Will Advise OnU.S.Prisoners’ Mental Condition B the Associated Press. In an effort to eliminate confusion resulting from conflicting testimony by prosecution and defense alienists, panels of neutral experts will be es- tablished shortly in three important districts to advise Federal courts on the mental condition of prisoners Dr. W. L. Treadway, assistant sure geon general of the Public Health Service, disclosed yesterday that the panels soon would be inaugurated in the southern district of New York and at Baltimore and Philadelphia as the result of the plan’s success during & six-month test at Boston. “After we get the plan working in the Federal courts in those cities,” Dr. Treadway said, “we have plans to extend it to Chicago and Atlanta.” The Public Health Service, under the direction of Surg Gen. Thomas Parran, jr., evolved the plan which,