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Advises Congress to Retain Control of Funds Going to Executive Branch. BACKGROUND— For more than a quarter of a century, successive administrations have sought to simplify the ever- ezpanding Government structure through consolidations and reor= ganization, with but little to show for their efforts. A reduction pro- gram of limited scope was put into effect by President Roosevelt shortly after he took office, and he has now advanced another plan, a major feature of which calls for the abolishment of independent agencies. Concurrently, Senate and House committees also are strug- gling with the problem of cutting down on Federal activities. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Congress should not relinquish _n.s control over finances to the executive branch of the Government and should maintain its pre-audit to prevent un- lawful and irregular expenditures of money it appropriates to administra- tive agencies. This is the reoox_nmen- dation of the Brookings Institution re- garding the President’s proposal to take the functions of the Controller General, now an agent of Congress, away from Congress and deliver them to the Treasury Department, leaving Congress only a post audit by an auditor general. This is the issue on which Congress Jeaders have expressed themselves as most determined to oppose in the President’s reorganization bill, in which he asks absolute and unlimited power tq reorganize and abolish any and all agencies of the Government. The Brookings Institution was hired jointly by the three special commit- tees set up in the last session of Con- The report yesterday is an- other chapter in its survey on Govern- ment agencies. This new chapter was rushed through, Senator Byrd ex- plained, so the new joint committee set up to give intensive consideration to the reorganization program should have the benefit of the extepsive studies. The committee will have the report before it tomorrow. Urges Clarification of System. Numerous defects in the present system of financial administration, the ‘Brookings Institution vigorously con- tends, should be corrected by st_rengm- ening and clarifying the existing sys- tem rather than by changing funda- mental principles or curtailing con- gressional authority to prevent unlaw- ful or irregular expenditures. The re- port describes financial administra- tion as an administrative overhead which should be conducted with ‘the maximum of prompt and efl?mem service to operating agencies which is consistent with economical operation and efficient control. It contends there should be: 1. The essential implements of cen- tralized budgetary and administrative anagement. m2. E.En independent review of finan- cial acts of administrative officers as a basis for final audit and settlement of their accounts. By the budget and accounting act of 1921, the report t‘pimt,s out, and administrative man- ::gxf::y was placed under a central agency directly responsible to the President, while the function of final audit and settlement with power o disallow improper obligations, be- ore expenditure is made, were as- :igned t}o’ean agency fully and directly nsible to Congress. re!llzomakes clear the distinction be- tween administrative management and legislative control, Senator Byrd emphasizes, by showing that ad- ministrative management requires only systematic reporting of administra- tive accounting information, while the legislative control requires de- tailed audit prior to final settlement of accounts by an agency responsible to Congress and independent of the agencies to be audited. ‘Would Strengthen Agency. *This recommendation, Senator Byrd pointed out, “would strengthen the Budget Bureau as a staff agency directly responsible to the President for estimating needs of administra- tive agencies.” It would also, he says, “strengthen the office of the controller general as an agency responsible to Qon- gress for determining whether obliga- tlons incurred by administrative agencies are regular and legal under acts of Congress and whether subse- quent accounting is true and accu- Tate.” _ These recommendations would eliminate, at a very substantial sav- ing, the emergency accounting and disbursing system in the Treasury Department, employing some 26,000 persons. Change in title of the controller general to auditor general and the General Accounting Office to “Office of Audit and Settlement,” also is suggested to eliminate con- fusion through use of the terms ac- counting and controlling. That the Treasury Department be relieved of “all functions properly belonging to either auditing or budgetary offices” is another major recommendation. Co-operative work- ing arrangement between the Budget Bureau and the auditing agency with particular reference to the character of administrative accounting records s urged, with an interagency com- mittee suggested. Treasury Accounting Favored. It is recommended that the treasurer of the United States be required to render a proper account- ing of all special deposits as @& remedy for the present lack of proper control over that officer. Senator Byrd explained that the re- port also carries numerous recom- mendations for clarification, simplifi- cation, economy and efficiency in the Treasury Department and the present General Accounting Office. Removal of the Budget Bureau from its present anomalous structural posi- tion in the Treasury Department to an independent status under the President, giving the President more direct control over budgetary mat- ters, is another recommendation. Other proposals to strengthen the Budget Bureau are: (a) expansion of functions of the existing division of research and investigation; (b) crea- tion of a division of co-ordination; (c) replacement of the existing division of estimates with a division of budgetary accounting. Suggestions for improvement of the Pederal revenue collecting system are also made in the report, and there is lengthy discussion of other changes the Brookings Institution oconsiders desirable in other sgencies of Federal financial administration. Another development yesterday on the reorganisation plan was the oppo- sition of the Boceity of American AN Leaving the tenth precinct THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 28 1937—PART ONE. station house after questionin, regarding the shooting of Jerry Lanahan are, in foreground, Richard McAuliffe and Mrs. Edna Robertson, sister of the injured man. To the right in the background is W. S. Clark. All werg in the apartment at the time of the shooting. —Star Staff Photo. Foresters to the shifting of conserva- | tion agencies from the Department of | Agriculture to the Interior Depart- | ment. Under the Brownlow Commit- | tee report the national forests would be transferred and the Forest Serv- ice dismembered, it is claimed. H. H. Chapman, veteran professor of for- estry at Yale University, whose work has been largely training young Amer- icans for service in Federal, State and private employment and advance- ment of sound programs of forest, soil, wild life and grazing, is president of the society. “We are convinced,” he says, “that the Forest Service, the Biological Survey and other agencies dealing | with organic resources should remain in the Department of Agriculture, | where ability has been shown to ad- minister public lands bearing forests, forage and wild life to protect the interests of all the people.” He also emphasizes that there is a “balanced program” now -in opera- tion “in which no one interest is al- | lowed to dictate or monopolize the use and enjoyment of our natural re- sources.” B —— RESIDENT PHYSICIAN ASKED BY BOCOCK Seeks Funds From Tuberculosis Association to Care for Victims. Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of Gallinger Hospital, yesterday asked | the Board of Directors of the District Tuberculosis Association for funds to maintain at the hospital a resident | physician to care for the ever-increas- ing number of tuberculosis patients. The board found that it had no avail- | able funds to meet the request. “Five years ago,” Dr. Bocock wrote, | “there was not a bed at this institu- tion for the patient with tuberculosis. Today there are approximately 200 beds that we have been forced to make available. “During this period of growth in tuberculosis control work no special funds have been made available by regular appropriations to perform the service in question. But the situation is being met in the best possible way under existing conditions. At the present time there are received every 24 hours at this institution from two to eight cases definitely showing pul- Shooting (Continued From First Page.) ing and contended he had taken the gun from Lanahan’s hand after the latter had wounded himself. Dent is & son of Louis Addison Dent, a noted attorney here until his retire- ment about seven years ago. The elder Dent visited his son at the Tenth precinct early in the evening and ex- pressed the conviction that the younger man did not do the shooting. Bullet Punctures Lung. At Emergency Hospital, it was found the bullet had punctured Lanahan’s left lung, the injury being too serious to allow police questioning there. His condition was described as “satisfac- tory” late last night. Notified by police of the shooting, Lanahan's wife came in from nearby Maryland. She has been living with friends since the birth of a child & few weeks ago, while Lanahan was stopping temporarily at the Park road address. Dent, who also is married and the father of two children, has been mak- ing his home with his father for the past two years. He is a civil engi- neer. Police were told that Lanahan has been employed on & construction Job. P. E. 0. CONVENTION TO OPEN TUESDAY The second annual convention of the P. E. O. Sisterhood will open Tuesday at Pierce Hall, All Souls’ Unitarian Church, Sixteenth and Har- vard streets. The session will con- tinue through Wednesday. Miss Myrtle Seidler, chairman of Chapter C, will open the convention formally at 10 a.m. with an address of welcome, to which Dr. Ella R. Fales, District first vice president, will make a response. The day will be devoted to music, reports and a luncheon served by the Ladies’ Guild of the All Souls’ Church Musical Program. Dr. E. C. Higbie, president of Wilson Teachers’ College, will be the leading speaker at a banquet to be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Mayflower Hotel. The convention will be concluded Wednesday by a District board meet- monary tuberculosis.” ing some time in the afternoon. Mrs. Johnson Pines for Jungle, But Must Await A’series of X-ray examinations of | her shattered knee will determine whether Mrs. Martin Johnson, widow of the explorer, will carry out plans she has mapped for a lone venture into the African jungle, the Asso- ciated Press reported from New York last night. The sparkling-eyed “littlest big- gan.. hunter” disclosed her intention | to return to Africa while in Wash- ington, where she lectured Friday night. However, injuries received in the airplane crash which cost her husband’s life, may mean she will never walk again. 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After 20 years in the jungles, civiliza- tion leaves me restless.” Mrs. Johnson spoke before a ca- pacity audience in Constitution Hall here and exhibited sound films of jungle life taken in British Borne HEARING TUESDAY INT3AIR DEATHS U. S. Bureau Will Conduct |- Probe Into Cause of T. W. A, Crash. BY the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 27.—Inspec- tor Byron M. Jacobs of the Bureau of Air Commerce will conduct & hearing Tuesday on the cause of the crash of the Transcontinental and Western Airlines transport plane that killed 13 persons Thuraday near Pittsburgh. ‘The Bureau of Air Commerce an- nounced the date of the hearing from Washington. Coroner W. J. McGregor, conducting & separate investigation, said he would hold an inquest as soon as possible. While the Federal investigators as- sembled the evidence of the plunge of the airliner into a cornfield only 5 miles from the Allegheny airport, two other investigations produced agreement that ice forming on the wings caused the crash. T. W. A. Makes Statement. Officials of T. W. A. issued a state- ment yesterday that the crash was due to the plane passing through “localized but very severe icing forma- tions * * *.” The statement added: “A heavy deposit of ice formed on the leading edge of the ailerons, which control lateral balance, and caused the plane to completely out of con- trol * * Dr. John J. McLean, director of the county airport, sald he agreed with this theory. Pilot ,Larry Bohnet of Newark, his crew and 10 passengers crashed to their deaths less than 15 minutes after he had radioed that he was over the airport and “okay.” Airline officials said the report was made about 6:33 p.m. The Sun-Telegraph today stated Bohnet had written in his log book: ‘“Contacted field station at 6:45 p.m.” Saw Ship Dive to Ground. A few minutes later Capt. A. M. Wilkins, piloting another airliner, saw Bohnet's ship nose-dive to the ground. Jacobs conferred with other State and Pederal aeronautical inspectors in preparation for the hearing at which several witnesses of the dis- aster will testify. Co-operating in the study of the accident were R. L. Hazen, C. B. Reed, Russell Delaney of the Bureau of Air Commerce; George Anderson, district Weather Bureau superintendent, of Cleveland, and Maj. C. Vinet of Johnstown, chief of the State aero- nautical inspectors. D. C. OPENS DRIVE ON TUBERCULOSIS Washington's active participation in the national program of education on the importance in the cure of tu- berculosis of the early discovery of the disease was launched yesterday. ‘Three days before the official open- ing of the early diagnosis campaign, which will run all through the month of April, Mrs, Ernest R. Grant, man= aging director of the District Tuber= culosis Association, outlined the cam- paign’s main features. “One of the leading events of this campaign,” Mrs. Grant said, “is the first school health instruction insti- tute, which is to be held Monday, April 5, in co-operation with the pub- lic school authorities. “We shall give also coast-to-coast radio broadcasts by Surg. Gen. 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Ingram, director of boys’ activities, said the boys will be divided into classes of about 40 each. Lessons will be given each day through Saturday at 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2,3 4, 6 7 and 8 oclock. The lessons will be concluded Saturday with a difficult test conforming to Red Cross standards. Ingram expressed | confidence that virtually any boy wno | attends all the lessons will be able to | pass the test. Pointing out that swimming affords & means of healthful exercise in addi- tion to serving as a safeguard against the danger of drowning, the campaign ALUMNI TO DANCE Gonzaga Association to Hold An nual Fete Friday. The annual Gonzaga Alumni Asso~ ciation dance will be held at the Wardman Park Hotel Priday night, with proceeds to go to the Gonzaga scholarship fund, it was announced yesterday Officers of the association are: Al Philip Kane, president; James F. O’Donnell, vige president: John A. K. ¢ Donovan, secretary, and Louis F. Frick, treasurer. s Own Sister's Mother-in-Law. 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Wise Smith, national president, has selected Mrs. Earle Wilfley as local executive chairman of arrangements. Mrs. Wilfley's husband was one f the Capital's out- standing resident preachers for many years. He was pastor of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church and later built the National City Christian Church. In addition to the principal meet- ings, slated for Constitution Hall, a world’s worship service will be held ‘Wednesday afternoon, June 2, in Cal- vary Baptist Church. Every phase of temperance activity, scientific and social work on behalf of world education on the alcohol problem will be considered. In addi- tion, the convention will honor its leader, Mrs. Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N. Y., who is completing her sixth year as president of the world or- ganization. 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