Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1937, Page 25

Washington News GIVEN CONGRESS BY MRS. NORTON District Chairman Expects Measure, Legalizing Sport, Will Pass. $500,000 REVENUE YEARLY ESTIMATED Every Effort Is Made to Avoid “Unfair Advantage” Over Four Maryland Tracks. A new bill designed to legalize horse racing in the District under the pari-mutuel system was intro- duced today by Chairman Norton of the House District Committee. Mrs. Norton said the measure has none of the features that resulted in its death in the last Congress and confidently predicted its passage by the House. In accordance with the wishes of Representative Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland, who was instrumental in pigeon-holing the bill at the last session of Congress, Mrs. Norton ex- plained the new measure was written to avoid giving the District an “unfair advantage” over Maryland, which has | four tracks. Similar to Maryland Act. Mrs. Norton disclosed the plan set up in her bill is similar to that| in Maryland. It requires the opera- | tors of a race track to pay a| license fee of $6,000 a day for each | day's operation, plus a 1 per cent tax on all money wagered and a 15 per cent tax on the net revenue. Alto- gether, she believes the District will receive a minimum of $500,000 a year in revenue from the operation of a track. The bill also would limit the racing geason to 54 days a year. It would establish a racing commission of three members, to be appointed by the Dis- trict Commissioners, to control and regulate racing. The salary of each commissioner would be $2,000 a year. Issues Statement. After introducing the bill, Mrs. Nor- ton issued a statement in which she said she was opposed to gambling, but that in her opinion it is impossible to stop it merely by prohibiting it by law, and moreover the District is in dire need of additional revenue. “The District of Columbia is in dire need of revenue,” Mrs. Norton de- clared, “and if racing is permitted, the District would receive at least | $500,000 each year in revenue. | “Although I am opposed to gam- bling, it is my opinion that it is im- | possible to stop by merely prohibiting | it by law, and the much more desir- able and practical approach toward curtailing gamblers is to bring it out into the open as it would be under this bill, rather than attempting to educate the people of the District to the consequences attendent to gam- bling. “At the present time gambling or ‘wagering on horse races in the Dis- trict of Columbia is prevalent, and | there are an ever-increasing number of ‘bookies’ in the District who will take bets on any horse race run in the United States. Further, it is merely & matter of a half hour to ride to some of the Maryland tracks, which I understand are supported in great part by the residents of the District. “I cannot see why since there is 80 much interest in racing in the District men and women should be forced to take this trip at all, nor why the revenue which comes from their wagers should be given to any outlying State when the District needs the revenues so much. “To bring wagering and gambling out in the open, under proper super- | vision and control, I deem it a much more desirable situation than that now existing in the District when horse racing seems such an important " question.” O’Hara to Erect Track. Walter O’'Hara, operator of the Narragansett race track, has prom- ised to erect a similar track in Wash- ington if Congress legalizes horse racing. The project, he estimated, ‘would cost $1,000,000. As chairman of the Judiciary Sub- «committee of the House District Com- mittee at the last session of Congress, Congress let the original racing bill die in his subcommittee from inaction. ‘His chief objection to the measure was that it would have allowed 90 days of racing in the District, whereas the four Maryland tracks are per- mitted to operate for only 25 days each, or a total of 100 days a year. He also opposed a provision which would have allowed the District only # 10 per cent return on the amount wagered during a meet. Such a plan, Palmisano contended, would have placed the Maryland tracks at an “unfair advantage” with the proposed District track. WOMAN EXPLORER T0 LECTURE HERE " Miss Gloria Hollister, Former Aide to Dr. Beebe, to Speak Tomorrow. Miss Gloria Hollister, once an as- mociate of Dr. William Beebe in his deep-sea work with the bathysphere and more recently leader of a sci- entific expedition into the wilds of PBritish Guiana, will give an illus- trated lecture on her travels tomor- yow night before the National Geo- ‘graphic Society at Constitution Hall. Among the specimens brought back Py Miss Hollister on her last trip were & golden anteater, 12 of the rare hoatzin birds, a rainbow tanager, a tiny golden frog that lives in the ‘heart of cacti, and several vampire ‘bats. Traveling much of the time by plane, the youthful explorer and ther photographer took numerous pan=- oramic pictures of the land’s many Jwaterfalls, some of which( .!T y:: uncharted. One of the sl ‘wiaited was the newly discovered 840- cataract named after the ex- Edward VIIL Hollister is the guest of her and aunt, Mr, and Mrs, Lester ‘Wilson of Chevy Chase, Md. i REPRESENTATIVE BIGELOW. REPRESENTATIVE ALLEN. he #n SHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937, #%% WA REPRESENTATIVE SACKS. —Star Staff Photo. CAB STRKE WATS HEARNGS STDY Drivers to Seek Additional Sympathizers Before De- ciding to Quit. Temporarily abandoning their strike, several hundred ‘independent iaxicab drivers today sought additional sym- pathizers before deciding whether to stop work in protest against low rates or to allow the Public Utilities Com- mission to air their grivances. ‘The decision, which may result in depletion of the strikers’ ranks aur- ing the inauguration, if a vote is cast against waiting the necessary 20 days for a public hearing, will be reached at a mass meeting called for tomor- row night. Thirty-four of the independent drivers elected to forfeit collateral today instead of appearing in Police Court on disorderly conduct charges growing out of their alleged attempts to dissuade non-striking hackers from carrying passengers early yesterday. Speakers Urge Unity. At an enthusiastic but sparsely at- tended meeting late yesterday in Co- lumbia Typographical Temple the operators heard speakers plead for unity and concerted action and in the same breath deplore any move to “mess up” President Roosevelt’s in=- auguration. Terming the President “the poor man’s friend,” out, with possible resulting violence in conflicts with non-striking operators, would mar the inaugural proceedings. Edward Williams, colored driver, was moved to tears as he took the platform to make a plea for a ‘“de- cent living” for hackers. Citing sta- tistics showing the cost of operating a taxicab, Williams claimed it was impossible to earn a livelihood under the present low rates. One-Day Strike Proposed. Cheers greeted a proposal by O. J. Holland that efforts be made to stage a city-wide, one-day strike to focus the public's attention on the situation and make “the man in the White House and the men on Capitol Hill” realize taxicab drivers are “not getting a fair deal.” A nn'e-day walkout, tying up every cab in” Washington, might “shock the public to their senses,” Holland argued, whereas the drivers would only be starving themselves by laying off indefinitely. & The meeting followed a conference between a committee representing the dissatisfied independents and members of the Public Utilities Commission at the District Building. The utilities heads were presented with an informal petition setting forth six demands, among them limitation of operators’ permits and the appoint= ment of a board of control for the taxi- cab industry. HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER BLAMED FOR INJURY Victim of Truck-Auto Collision in Critical Condition—Hambright Traffic Fatality. Andrew Caperones, 19, of 312 Third street was in a serious condition in Casualty Hospital today, the victim of a hit-and-run driver in the 400 block of New York avenue yesterday. Caperones may have received a frac- tured skull when the_ truck he was driving was hit by an automobile which failed to stop. Police sald they know the tag numbers of the machine. Three-year-old Ella Howes of Bladensburg, Md., was treated at Casualty Hospital for a possible frac- ture of the right leg after being struck by an automobile near Bladensburg road and Defense Highway. Meanwhile, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald announced that the death of Frank Hambright, 71, retired Government Printing Office employe, would be listed as a traffic fatality. An autopsy revealed death was due to injuries Hambright received when struck by an automobile Deemhu,z. ‘ the drivers seemed | unanimous in the opinion that a walk- | Boy Seriously Shot W hen Revolver Is Used as Hammer 14-Year-Old Ross Staley Seriously Wounded at Newsstand. A shot fired from a revolver which was being used as a hammer by an- other youth last night resulted in the serious wounding of Ross Staley, 14. According to a police repo®, Nick | Scaldaferri, 17, of 123 D street, was using the butt of a .22-caliber revolver to drive nails into the counter of a newsstand at 805 Fourth street when the gun was accidentally discharged. Ross was standing nearby watching his friend and the bullet lodged in | his side. At Sibley Hospital he was said to have a good chance to recover. He lives at 208 F street and is a pupil at the Pope School. Police were told the revolver, which belongs to the proprietor of the news- stand, was kept in a drawer, from which it was removed by the Scalda- ferri boy. b BABCOCK DIFFERS WITH ROOSEVELT Employes’ President Opposes Civil Service Under Admin- istrator. The presidential reorganization plan for putting civil service under an administrator is criticized in a statement by E. Claude Babcock, for- mer secretary of the GCivil Service Commission, now president of the United Civil Service Employes. “Rating and allocation of positions,” he said, “are judicial actions and should not be under direct individ- ual control of anybody, unless a defi~ ntely empowered court is available to review the actions. Such a court or board should well be given the judicial functions of rating and allocations. “In general, while judicial deter- minations can be made more rapidly by an individual, independence of fact-finding boards and commissions must be maintained to prevent abuses which would be more harmful than the lack of speed possible otherwise. A single head of the Government hav= ing administrative, legislative and jue dicial functions might be more ‘effi- cient,’ but it wouldn't do.” Babcock also differed with the plan for a civillan non-paid board. Other recommendations on civil service met his approval. SOCIAL AGENCIES GROUP TO SEEK APPROPRIATION Spokesmen for Council to Ask Commissioners for Additional $830,000. Spokesmen for the Washington Council of Social Agencles will ap- pear before the District Commissioners at 11 a.m. tomorrow to ask for a sup- plemental appropriation of $830,000 to take care of relief demands for the remainder of the fiscal year. ‘The sum was several weeks ago by the Board of Public Welfare, Elwood Street, director, informed the Commissioners that without the sup- plemental appropriation there will be “actual suffering” among Washing- ton’s needy families. It is expected that Rev. Russell J. Clinchy and Mrs. W. A. Roberts will head the delegation calling upon the Commissioners. PRISONERS GAVE BLOOD Seventy-two District Jail inmates last year volunteered blood in an ef- fort to save the life of Gallinger Hos- pital patients who were without funds or relatives with the right type of blood for transfusions, Jail Physician Walter K. Angevine announced yes- terday. ‘The prisoners, who receive no com- pensation or reduction in sentence for their generosity, respond willingly when emergency calls come from the hospital, Dr. Angevine sald. r TH SUNDAY MORVING ED! . . COMNITTEE Fenerty and Reed Vacancies Are Given to Bates and Shafer. FOUR REAPPOINTED FROM G. 0. P. MEMBERS Dirksen Assigned to Appropria- tions Committee—Bates Still Mayor of Salem, Mass. BY JAMES E. CHINN, ‘Two new Republican members were added to the House District Commit- tee today, completing its personnel for the new Congress. Four new Dem- ocrats had been named yesterday. ‘The new members are Representa- tives Bates, Massachusetts, and Shafer, Michigan. Bates fills a va- cancy caused by the defeat in the No= vember elections of former Represent- ative Fenerty of Pennsylvania. Shafer replaces Representative Reed of Illi- nois, who was advanced to the Ju- diciary Committee. ‘The Republicans reappointed to the committee are Representatives Dirk- sen, Illinois; Short, Missouri; Brew- ster, Maine, and Cole, New York. Dirksen also was given an assign- ment on the Appropriations Commit- tee. Continues Mayor Post. Although a member of Congress, Bates is still holding his position as Mayor of Salem, Mass—a position he has held for 13 years. He said he hoped his knoweldge of municipal ad- ministration “may be of some assis- tance to the city of Washington.” Shafer is a newspaper editor from Battle Creek, Mich, and is 44 years old. With all of the vacancies filled on the committee, Chairman Norton plans to call & special meeting Mon- day for organization purposes. At the same time she will name two special subcommittees to consider the Jacobs fiscal relations report. ‘The four new Democratic members accepted the appointments with vary- ing degrees of enthusiasm, but promised to work for the best interests of the Nation’s Capital. The District must have a commit- tee in the House, and new members, like college freshmen, can't be choosers. ‘That’s the principal reason Repre- sentatives Laurence F. Arnold of Tllinois, Herbert S. Bigelow of Ohio, Leon Sacks of Pennsylvania and William F. Allen of Delaware were put on the District Committee. None of them sought the assignment, but the House Ways and Means Commit- tee, in its wisdom, saw fit to give them the job. Are Not Squawking. ‘These new members, however, are not squawking. All of them wanted a job on a committee, and they got | it, though most of them realize by this time that the work ahead in con- nection with District affairs is to be the biggest and perhaps the most important undertaken in recent years, because the pending fiscal relations report proposes to upset the present plan of Federal participation in the expenses of operating the District. And what a diversity of vocations these four new members represent. Arnold, for instance, is business man and a banker who served for eight years in the Illinois State Legislature. Bigelow is a clergyman, who came to Congress after service in the Ohio House of Representatives and the City Council of Cincinnati. Sacks, a grad- uate of the Wharton School of Finance, is an attorney and a former deputy attorney general of Pennsyl- vania. But Allen's career has been even more varied. For 20 years he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a station agent and telegrapher and later became & packer of farm products. After that he engaged in the oil business. Arnold’s chief aim was to get as- signed to the powerful Appropriations Committee. But there were too many other Democrats, who were returned for a second term, after the same job. But on the District Committee, Arnold plans to actually learn some- thing about the problems of Wash- ington. “I want to be fair to the District,” he said. Arnold sald one of his first tasks ‘would be to study the fiscal relations report and the effect of its proposed three-point formula for dividing Dis- trict and Federal expenses. Sacks admits his ignorance of Dis- trict affairs but said he proposed to learn everything there is to know to be of efficient service. Has Had Previous Service. Bigelow said he believed his work on the District Committee “is going to be of interest” because of his con- nection with the Cincinnati city gov- ernment as a member of the City Council. “Im glad to be on the committee,” he declared. “I'm going to give it my best service. I want to contribute to Washington some of the spirit of the city government of Cincinnati.” Bigelow, incidentally, believes Cin- cinnati is one of the best-governed municipalities in- the United States. Much of the credit for the successful operation of the city, Bigelow gives to “Dykstra is doing an excellent job,” he said. “I am proud of Cincinnati’s civil service and merit systems, which being strictly enforced. If there city in the United States that Edward VIII Busts Reduced. Busts made to commemorate the ening Star STUDY ONMONDAY Chairman Norton Plans to Call Special Meeting for Organization. DEFINITELY DECIDES TO NAME SUBGROUPS Representative Kennedy to Head One, While Nichols Is Expected to Lead Second. The House District Committee prob- ably will begin its study of the Jacobs fiscal relations report Monday, it was anounced today by Chairman Norton. With the Democratic vacancies on the committee filled and the Repub- lican changes expected soon, Mrs. Norton planed to call a special meet- ing Monday to perfect organization for the new session and to name the special subcommittees that will con- sider various features of the report and its three-point formula for solv- ing the fiscal relations problem. Mrs. Norton has definitely decided to have two special subcommittees dissect the voluminous report. This indicates she has virtually scrapped a proposal of Chairman King of the Senate District Committee for a joint study by Senate and House District Committees. Senator King suggested the joint study to avoid repetition of hearings before both committees. ‘Two Phases of Study. One of Mrs. Norton's special com- mittees, to be headed by Representa- tive Ambrose J. Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, will consider the five proposed plans embodied in the report for raising additional revenue to off- set the anticipated $10,000,000 deficit the District will face in the coming fiscal year if the three-point formula is approved by Congress. The other subcommittee, of which Representa- tive Jack Nichols, Democrat, of Okla- homa is expected to be appointed chairman, will consider 19 statutory changes recommended in the report. J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en- gineer and tax expert, who directed the fiscal relations investigation, called on Mrs. Norton late yesterday and offered t0 aid her committee with its study. He told her he and his assistants would be available at any time to explain the plan set up in the report for establishing a new basis of relationship between the Fed- eral and District governments. Jacobs to Testify. Jacobs, as well as members of his Advisory Committee who framed the report, are expected to testify before each of the special subcommittees when hearings are started. The Ad- visory Committee was composed of George W. McAneny, president of the Title Guaranty Trust Co. of New York City; James Martin, chairman of the Kentucky State Tax Commis- sion, and Clarence A. Dykstra, city manager of Cincinnati. Mrs. Norton said she would appoint five members to each fo the subcom- mittees—three Democrats and two Republicans. Members of each of these subcommittees will be requested to make a careful study of the de- tails of the report, so they will be in & position intelligently to question Jacobs and members of his Advisory Committee when they appear as wit- nesses. The fiscal relations report, accord- ing to Mrs. Norton, is the most im- portant matter that has come before her committee since she has been chairmag, And because of this fact she will urge the subcommittees to make a thorough, conscientious study of the recommendations it contains. e INJURED BY FALL Falling about 14 feet from the top to the second floor of the Trans Lux Building, at Fourteenth street and New York avenue, where he was work- ing, Vincenzo D. Battista, 1924 Ben- ning road northeast, was taken to Emergency Hospital today with pos- sible fractures of the skull and left leg. H condition was sald to be critical. According to witnesses, Di Battista, who is about 40, lost his footing and plunged to the second floor, where ;m struck a ledge which checked his all. avenue, almost spilled an attend in his hurry to greet his owner. and later was picked up by tenth the pound. Huntress, a jeweler, claimed Brink, Great Dane pet of George S. Huntress, 380_7 Kansas ant at the District Pound today Brink broke his chain yesterday precinct police, who sent him to him today. -—Star Staff Photo. HARRIS CONVICTION RESTUDIED BY D. Cummings Orders Reopening of Case After Appeal by Burkinshaw. ‘The Justice Department has re- opened its study of the conviction of Charles Harris, serving a life sentence | at Lewisburg Penitentiary for the murder of Milton W. “Milsie” Henry, local gambler, Reconsideration of the case was ordered by Attorney General Cum- mings at the urgent request of Neil Burkinshaw, former special assistant to the Attorney General and lawyer for Harris. Burkinshaw made his plea in a letter calling attention to “new evidence"—the discovery last August of the shotgun and automobile used in the 1932 slaying. Burkinshaw Reluctant. Burkinshaw was reluctant to discuss the case today. He expressed surprise that local police had disclosed to the press that special agents of the:Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation yesterday obtained police records of the investi- gation into Henry's death, Officials of the F. B. I declined to confirm or deny they are making an inquiry. This is the second time the Justice Department has given special atten- tion to the Henry case. It was after a prior investigation of the evidence on which Harris was convicted that Harris was spared from the electric chair by order of President Roosevelt. Many influential persons appealed to the Department of Justice in behalf of Harris, claiming he was & victim of mistaken identity by witnesses. Guns Found in Car. Last August a farmer in Gaithers- burg, Md., bought at a police auction sale an old car found abandoned on the streets. The farmer found a secret compartment containing a shotgun and two pistols. The shot- gun was identified by Lieut. John H. Fowler, ballistics expert of the local police department, as the weapon which was used by the killer of Henry. ‘The pistols had not been fired. Police indicated the discovery of the weapons served to strengthen the evidence against Harris, but Burkin- shaw contends a careful investigation will show Harris did not use the guns, Mail Service Monthly. Monthly mail service has been estab- lished by a British steamer between the Falkland Islands’ capital, Port Stanley, and Montivideo, Urugu: 15th and Avenue Best Spot To View Inaugural Parade L. Z. Thompson Voices Opinion—Saw First in 1873. The best place from which to watch the inaugural parade is the corner of Fifteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue. This statement is made on the au- thority of Lewis Z. Thompson, former Patent Office examiner, who has seen every inaugural since Grant's second in 1873, and has never yet paid for a seat. He has generally watched above location as his favorite. “Yes, I saw Grant’s parade,” Thompson said. “I stood on & win- dow sill on the Senate side of the LEWIS Z. THOMPSON. rade as & member of the Washing- been uniformly bad with about four exceptions. A brother, Dr. Charles F. Thompson of Denver, Colo, rode the cowboy contingent in Theodore 71 ”Ti Tugwell Returns To Receive Praise | Of 200 at Dinner | Green and Lewis, After Battling All Day, Show Up, Too. Rexford Guy Tugwell came back to | Washington last night to hear the | applause of 200 of his friends. i‘ Now vice president of the American | | Molasses Co., Tugwell, who, until Jan- |uary 1 was resettlement administra- tor, Undersecretary of Agriculture and | the sole survivor of the original brain | trust, sat at the head of the table at the Wardman Park Hotel and heard a long series cf speeches lauding him. It was a stag banquet and the news- papers weren't told about it. But it was productive of news because it brought together William Green, pres- | ident of the American Federation of | Labor, and John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee on Industrial Or- ganization—the two strong men of American labor, who had been at swords’ points all day yesterday over the automobile strike. Present were Senators, brain- trusters, and even a Republican, Rob- bert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the Tariff Commission, who rose to toast | the man later referred to by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin as “a man T'd be willing to go tiger hunting with in the dark.” EUROPEAN CRITICS OF AMERICA HIT Most Are Without Adequate Knowledge of Country, Dr. Pergler Says. Most European critics of America are without an adequate knowledge of this country, its people and its prob- lems, Dr. Charles Pergler, dean of National University Law School, told the International Relations Club of Maryland University yesterday. “The usual misjudgments concern- ing the United States,” he said, “are again appearing in the European press as a result of the recent election, and an extreme of such misjudgment ap- pears in the question being raised in Central Europe whether or not the results of November 3 are an indi- cation that there is arising in the United States what may be called the Fuehrer principle. Without in any sense speaking politically in the partisan sense, European commenta- tors should be assured that the elec- tion means no such thing, if by the Fuehrer principle is meant anything resembling the arbitrary rule of an individual.” Dr. Pergler said European charges that this country was remiss in “fail- ing” to ratify the treaty growing out of the 1919 peace conference and the handling of the war debt situations were other indications of the ignor- ance of foreigners concerning Amer- ica and its public laws. FLEEING “LITTLE MAN,” FUGITIVE GOES TO JAIL Dashes Into Gallinger to Be Pro- tected From Fellow “Two Feet Tall.” Daniel Pfeil, 48, 900 block of N street, ran into a 30-day jail sentence when he fled in terror from “a little man about 2 feet tall.” Pfeil dashed into Gallinger Hos- pital Tuesday, a policeman testified in Police Court today, to seek refuge from the “little man, who had chased him all over town.” Pfeil was treated at the hospital and ‘brought into court this morning on a charge of intoxication. Judge Edward M. Curran, learing there were previous convictions against Pfeil, gave him a 30-day sentence. D. C. GETS $29,889 Government Share for Unemploy- ment Compensation. ‘The District of Columbia gets $29,- 889.81 from the Government for un- employment compensation in the present quarter, the Social Security Board announced late yeacerday. This brings the total grants to $110,783.54. The board also announced an al- lotment of $18,027.64 to Maryland for M!erthlbhn& Society and General BILLS TO REVISE D.C.CODEOFFERED IN BOTH HOUSES Commission of 3 Lawyers Would Require $50,000 Authorization, CIVIL AND CRIMINAL SECTION NEED CHANGE McCarran and Randolph Intro- duce Measures Sponsored by Bar Association. Sponsored by the District Bar As- soclation, identical bills were introe duced in the Senate and House today for creation of a commission to re- vise the District's code of laws. Such a project long has been urged by local attorneys, who say the Dis- trict’s system of laws, both civil and criminal, is badly in need of a thorough going-over. The Senate bill was introduced by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, a member of the District Com- mittee’s Judiciary Subcommittee, who has pledged his active support of the measure. Senator McCarren formerly was president of the Nevada Bar Asso=- ciation and at one time was chief Jjustice of the Nevada Supreme Court, Representative Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, dropped the bill in the House hopper. He is a member of | the House District Committee. Changes Since 1930. The last District code was published in 1930. and was prepared during the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses. Since then, supplements have beea issued from time to time as new legis- lation concerning the District was en- acted, and a point now has been reached, local attorneys feel, whea the whole mass of laws should kLe restated, incorporating needed amends ments, Revision of the code would permit a tightening up of the Capital’s criminal statutes, it was pointed out. Loopholes in a number of existing statutes, no= tably the anti-gambling laws, are a constant source of difficulty for prose= cuting officials. The bills were prepared by George C. Gertmann, for 17 years secretary of the local bar group and now an ac= tive candidate for its presidency. Gertmann was considered largely responsible for the recent liberaliza- tion of the District's divorce laws and was publicly thanked by the Bar As- sociation for his efforts on behalf of that legislation. $50,000 Authorization. A commission of three members of the bar of the District Court, all resie dents of the District, would be authom ized under the new bills, which provide for a $50,000 appropriation to finance the work. Members would draw an- nual salaries of $10,000 and would be permitted to employ needed law clerks, stenographers and other assistants. ‘The bills provide that “the criminal law section of the code shall receive preferred consideration by the com= mission.” Each section, when completed, would be presented to the District Court for consideration and then submitted to- Congress for enactment. Offices of the commission would be in the Department of Justice Building and the commission would have free use of postal facilities, The task of selecting the commission would devolve upon the President, who would have the power to remove any ‘member for cause. WOMAN DIES AT 113 ‘TUCSON, Ariz,, January 14 (#) — Serefina Soto Zazueta, 113, said by her family to have been a personal friend of Geronimo, noted Apache war chieftain, died yesterday. She was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, September 21, 1823, BAND CONCERTS. By the Navy Band Symphony Ore chestra this evening at 8 o'clock in the sail loft, navy yard, Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor; Alexander Morris, assistant conductor. Program, Overture, “Mignon” “Kamenoi Ostrow” Op. 10, No. 22 “First Rumanian Rhapsody,” Op. --Enesco “On the Trail,” from the “Grand Canyon Suite”. Valse, “Tales of Vienna Woods,” ---Thomas scene), “Symphony No. 1,” Op. 39.. 1. Andante, non troppo, allegro energico. 2. Andante. 3. Scherzo, allegro. 4. Finale, andante-allegro molto, “The National Anthem. By the Soldiers’ Home Band Orches- ‘ra this evening at 5:30 in Stanley Hall; John S. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant bandmaster, Program, March, “Carry O --Lake Overture, “Triumphani Suppe Oriental suite, “The Caravan”___Joy: 1. “Caravan Camp in the Desert.” 2. “Caravan Camp Attacked by Brigands.” 3. “Convoy on the March.” Scenes from the opera “The Bar- tered Bride” . - __Smetana Air in olden style, ‘Waltz Suite, “Wiener Burger” (“Vien- na Citizens”) - Sousa “The National Anthem.” By the United States Army Band, Capt. Thomas F. Darcy conducting, in the Army Band Auditorium at 4:30 o'clock today. Program. “Florentiner March” “Mood Mauve” March and scherzo from the sym- phonic suite, “Love of the Three Oranges” ---Prokofieft “That's Life, I Guess,” fox trot, “Flor de Brazil” . “National Defense,” march. “The Star_Spangled Banner.”