Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1937, Page 23

ADDED TEACHER REQUEST 1S CUT BY HOUSE BODY District Supply Bill Allows But 54—Clerical Work Curtailed. RIDER ADDED TO END RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Measure Provides School Libra- | rians Cannot Receive Higher Pay Than in Free Libraries. Despite the insistence of Superin- tendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou and Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, chair- man of the Board of Education, that there is an ‘tional teachers, the House Committee on Appropriations today reported the District supply bill with provision for only 54. Half are to be used in new buildings being completed and the other half to relieve the present the old. The specified proportion of | the new instructors is 36 in divisions | 1 to 9 and 18 in divisions 10 to 13 The bill also carries the legislative rider that teachers shall not perform any clerical work except that inci- dental and necessary to class-room teaching assignments. The report declares it is the opinion of the com- mittee that teachers are saddled with an “unnecessarily compiling data that any practical use. Chairman Ross A “acute” need for 93 addi- | congestion in | burdensome task” | are not put to | Collins, of the subcommittee, declared | that at least 130 teachers in the Dis- trict school system are performing clerical functions. Psychological Tests Hit. The rider was admittedly inserted with & view to bringing to an end the work of the School Research Depart- ment which conducts the various psychological tests such as scholastic aptitude examinations. This type of test drew a barrage of criticism from Collins during the hearings nn the bill. The chairman not only saw no value in the tests but declared they took away from the classroom a number of teachers who should be | teaching. He could further see no | way that the data compiled from these | tests was being used and felt that clerks could perform the work equally es well as the teachers. Dr. Ballou and the school officials put up a vigorous defense on the ground that the tests enable the teachers better to know their pupils’ capabilities and hence to adapt the courses to the best effect. The work involved is not clerical but super- visory, they asserted. The chairman was ummpressed There is an additional legislative rider to the bill to the effect that &chool librarians can not be more highly paid than those in the Free Public Library. §7,157,820 Total. The total amount appropriated for all teachers and librarians was $7,- 157,820, SGD 000 less than the amount spproved by the Bureau of the Budget The recommendation of $683,800 for administrative officers is $8.200 less than the budget estimates. The dif- ference consists of $5,000 in additional salary lapses and the denial of a $3.- 200 assistant principalship to the Arm- strong School, the committee ex- plained. The sum approved for clerks and on thfizr way to work. FIVEINJURED HERE IN AUTO MISHAPS Ruth Hockaday, 3, Hurt When She Walks Into Side of Truck. Five persons one a 3-year-old girl, were injured in traffic accidents in the District early today and yesterday. The child, Ruth Hockaday, 630 In- dependence avenue southwest, re- ceived possibly & fractured skull and cuts on the head wher she walked | into the side of a moving truck in | front of her home yesterday, police other employes is $175,940, the same | es last year, the committee feeling there was not sufficient justification shown for any additions suggested in the estimates. One of the major recommendations made by the committee is that trans- ferring nearly half the appropriation for the District playgrounds to the Community Center Department under the Board of Education. This amounts to $99.565. The Center was also given an additional $25,000 as an entirely new item in the recommendations for exclusive use in building up Boys' Clubs. The total amount listed for the Center including old and new Jurisdictions is $216,565. Provide $400,000 for School. For the first time in the history of the District, the Appropriations Sub- committee has undertaken to christen a school, a job ordinarily left to the Board of Education. The sum of $400,000 is recommend- ed for the establishment of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial High School and Library as a monument to the states- man and educator who was the first president of the District Board of Education. The library, though for school use, is to be under the board of trustees of the Free Public Library. The pro- posed health center at the same loca- tion was not approved, and the total cost of the entire project is not to| exceed $800,000. Other building and land site recom- mendations include provision for a new senior high school at Fifth and SBheridan streets for which $450,000 is suggested and a limit set for total cost of $1,350,000. A new Lenox Vo- cational School is also provided for with a suggested appropriation of $160,000 and a top cost limit of $360,- 000. The top limit for the Dennison ‘Vocational School is raised from $280,- 000 to $336,000 because of increased construction costs. Night School Provided. Stipulation is also made in the night school appropriation of $94,180 for the establishment of a night school in the western section of the town, the concentration of population being, in the eyes of the committee, sufficient. A contingent furd of $4,000 for addi- tional expenses is also provided. Five thousand dollars is slashed from the budget estimates for the transportation of crippled and tuber- cular children on the basis of a 50 per cent decrease in enrollment, the com- mittee said. The amount allowed is $20,000. The committee felt that rudimen- tary science, with its putt-putt boats, Florence flasks and balloons could be suspended indefinitely unless the ap- propriation for school gardens could be stretched to cover it. T $6,000 requested for the science was not al- lowed. ! RUTH HOCKADAY —Star Staff Photo. reported. She was taken to Casualty Hospital. Three persons were injured in a two-car collision on New York ave- nue northeast near West Virginia avenue early today. Those hurt were Louise Sweeney, 31, Landover, Md., with possible concussion of the brain and face cuts; Frank De Petro, 38, Brentwood, Md., bruises on the legs and face, and Anna Williams, colored, 28, 1534A New Jersey avenue, cuts on the arms anc legs. One of the cars was operated by Petro and the other by Hansel Williams, colored, 30, 1534A New Jersey avenue, police said. The injured persons received | hospital treatment. Clarence Hartley, 49, 1013 Quebec avenue, a newspaper route agent, re- ceived a broken left leg and bruises to both legs yesterday when struck by a machine as he stood in the rear of his truck parked in the 2600 block of Georgia avenue. The driver of the car, police said, was Lyda C. Taylor, 62, 803 A street southeast. Hartley was treated at Garfield Hospital. Records to Be Protected. Valuable old recdrds of the proceed- ings of the Senate from the beginning of the Government, now stored in the attic of the Capitol, will be transterred to the Archives Building for preserva- tion. The resolution by Senator Bark- ley of Kentucky, authorizing the transfer, was approved by the Senate yesterday. BAND CONCERTS. By the Marine Band in the audi- torium at 3 p.m. today. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santel- mann, assistant. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. By the Navy Band Symphony Or- chestra in the Sail Loft at the Navy Yard at 8 pm. today. Lieut. Charles Benter, conductor; Alexander Morris, assistant. @h *WASHINGTON, D. C, Wlfl! SUNDAY MORNI U..3. T0 PROSECUTE GAMING CASES T0 LIMIT, BEACH SAYS No Leniency Will Be Shown Prisoners Caught in Drive Here. 14 ARE ARRAIGNED AND BONDS FIXED Wife of Jew Boy Dietz Accused .of Violating Customs Law in Coat Case. No leniency will be shown prisoners caught in the drive to smash Washing- ton’s underworld gambling empire, Assistant District Attorney Samuel Beach declared today as 14 men and women, seized in a series of raids yes- terday, were arraigned before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage. Among the defendants was Mrs. Selma Plisco, blond wife of William Plisco, alias Jew Boy Dietz, whom po- lice say succeeded Sam Beard as head of the city’s gambling rackets. Mrs. Deitz, attired in a mink coat, pleaded not guilty to a charge of vio- lating custom laws by smugglinga fur coat into the country. She was re- leased in $2,500 bond. When arrested {in her home at 1732 Hobart street, | police said she had $23.000 in the bosom of her dress and a 5-carat dia- mond ring in her shoe. Police are | holding the gem and the cash as “e | dence.” 5 Harry Whelan, attorney for those | caught in the raids, argued the bonds | demanded by the district attorney’s il | office were excessive and urged Com- Y | Flames and smoke, originating in the bargain basement of a 10-cent store at Seventh and D streets early today, destroyed approximately $10,000 worth of property as smoke, pouring from upper-floor windows, attracted a throng of nearly 3,000 persons —Star Slao‘ Photo. 'BLAZE N STORE ROUTS EMPLOYES One Is Treated for Effects of Smoke—Damage Esti- mated at $10,000. Fire breaking out in the basement of the F. & W. Grand Ten Cent Store, * | Seventh and D streets, today destroyed an estimated $10,000 worth of prop- erty and forced four employes who had arrived early for work to flee from the building. | Although actual damage from the | smoke billowing from the upper win- dows of the four-story building at- tracted a crowd of nearly 3,000 persons lon their way to work shortly after 8 | o'clock. | millinery department of the basement. The exact cause was undetermined, but faulty wiring was held a possibility. Mrs. Estelle Bowman, a cook in the store lunch room, ran unaided from | the second floor and later was taken to the store clinic for treatment from the effects of smoke. Three young stock clerks ran from the third floor when they were warned of the fire by a passerby. The boys, none of | whom was injured, were Chester Han- dler, 616 Rittenhouse street; Leon | Canova, 1216 Jefferson street, and John Baumgardner. address unknown. Property damage in the basement | was confined principally to the front | two-thirds of the building which con- | tained clothing, shoes, hats, toys and notions. Flames sweeping near the | basement ceiling partially destroyed | articles suspended from high racks at the rear of the floor. Half of about four dozen baby chicks taken from the basement were killed by smoke. In estimating the damage, Chief ‘Woolard said property loss from smoke on the upper three floors could not be accurately determined, but he be- lieved the amount would “not run much over $10,000, including every- thing.” Offices occupy the second floor and stock rooms of the 10-cent store the third and fourth floors. SENATE D. C. GROUP GETS 4 MORE BILLS | Measures Sent to Committee After Bemg Speeded Through House. - Four more House-approved District bills were referred today to the Sen- ate District Committee for considera- tion. ‘The measures were speeded through the House yesterday afternoon as it cleared its calendar of all pending District legislation before adjourning early out of respect to the memory of the late Representative Focht, Re- publican,” of Pennsylvania. Focht was a former chairman of the District Committee. ‘Two of the bills, the principal ones, wers passed without debate. One will permit bowling alleys to operate on Sundays between 2 p.m. and midnight. The other is designed to prevent blindness in children by re- quiring physicians to administer a prophylactic treatment to the eyes of infants at birth. Another bill would give the "joint board composed of the Public Utili- ties Commission and the District Commissioners increased authority to enforce its regulations. The third, which provoked a discussion between Representatives Michener, Republic- an, of Michigan and McCormack, Democrat, of Massachusetts, would grant. & Federal charter ‘to South- eastern University of the Y. M. C. A. " blaze was confined to the basement, | Sixth Battalion Chief L. L. Woolard, |said the fire started in or near the | missioner Turnage to redute them. Seen Detying Drive. “We have started a drive to stamp out gambling, and these men know | it,” protested Beach. “In the face of our drives they .have continued operating and therefore they must be prepared to take double risks. They should not be shown any considera- tion.” Those arraigned befose Turnage and the amount of their bonds follow: Bernard Corrigan, $4.000; King, $2,000; Philip Samakow, i Percy May, }53.000: Edward Kelly, $2,000; Ella Kelly. $2,000; Cecil Hayes, $2,000; Neal H. Blake, $2.000: Eugene Garges, | $2,000; George E. Dahoney, $2,000; Charles Bird, $2,000;, Raymond Reeve, $2,000. The men and women, wWho were ar- rested by Federal agents and police in a series of “mopping-up” raids against the city’s strongest gambling syndi- cate, will be given preliminary hear- ing April 13. Smuggling Charged. The Federal agents were armed with a_warrant charging Mrs. Plisco with possession of a $5,000 silver fox coat which allegedly had been smug- gled into this country. | While his home was being sur- rounded, another squad of Metropoli- tan police and internal revenue agents decended on Dietz’s headquarters— offices of the National Telecast, Inc.. $3,000; | three n.en. Simultaneously picked police squads struck at six other establishments ;al]egedly linked with the syndicate controlled by Dietz. Twenty-two prisoners were taken to police head- |quarters and questioned® until mid- night, but only 14 were held. Those charged were released later in $2,500 bond. Dietz, who is at liberty under $2,500 bond on a charge of conspiracy to violate gaming laws, was not found either at his home or his office. After months of intensive investi- gation Federal agents and police | struck their first blow at Dietz on March 6, when they raided his Albee | Building headquarters and a score of other establishments in which he is said to have been interested. His wife was arrested with Dietz at that time after raiders forced their way into their elaborately'furnished Connecticut avenue apartment. Reported Operating Again. Several days after the first series of raids police said they learned that Dietz's racing information service which went into some 100 Washington gambling places and extended its leased wire connections into Baltimore, New York and Montreal was again operating and it was decided to strike another decisive blow at the syndicate. Presence of Federal agents on both series of raids substantiated reports that local underworld characters who have been fighting for the gambling empire of Sam Beard may soon face prosecution for income tax violations. The raiding squad smashed a glass panel in the door of Dietz's Hobart street home to unlock the front door. Mrs. Dietz and a colored maid were alone in the two-story residence. After they had been sent to headquarters the officers searched the house room by room. In the basement was a complete telecasting outfit, more than 15 tele- phone sets, 15 slot machines, a dice “cage” and several numbers books. The slot machines were arranged on shelves in & garage. These and other equipment were hauled to headquar- ters in a moving van. Materials Confiscated. File cases were pried open and their contents confiscated by the raid- ers in the Albee Building office. A truckload of telecasting equipment also was confiscated. Raymond T. Reeve, 35, of the Portland Hotel, and Percy M. May, 36, of Takoma Park, Md. who were found in the office, and Philip Samakow, newstand oper- ator in the lobby, were arrested on gaming charges. A raiding squad led by Inspector J. F. Beckett, rounded ur five youths, who were setting up type for racing charts in offices in the Printcraft Building, 930 H street. The offices contained a small electrical press, a hand press, & linotype machine and other printing equipment. Chopping through a heavily barred door on the third floor of an office building at 1405 I street, a raiding squad led by Capt. H. G. Callahan and United States Marshall Harry Allen uncovered an elaborate radio and telephons racing information eenter. 4 Donald | $3.000: Tony Di Genaro. | | in the Albee Building—and arrested | NG, EDITION TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1937. CHERRY FETE UNIT IS PREPARING FOR| VISITING THRONGS Thursday, April 8,Js Set for Pageant—Buds at Best Then. EXPECT RECORD CROWD OVER TWO WEEK ENDS Formal Ceremonies to Start With Sunrise Exercises West of Basin Boat House. With Thursday, April 8, d(‘flmtcly set as the date for the Cherry Blossom pageant, the day when the buds are | expected to be at their best, the Wash- ington committee in charge of the festival was speeding its final prepa- rations today for -the reception of thousands of week-end visitors. Acting on the advice of Government horticulturists, the committee yester- day announced the week of Sunday, April 4 to Sunday, April 11, as the period when the blossoms around the Tidal Basin will be in bloom. In view of the fact that the festival week is to be the first held in two years, a record crowd of visitors is expecled\ over’ the two week ends. Plans for the pageant on April 8, when 10-year-old Sakika Saito, daugh- | ter of the Ambassador of Japan and | Mme. Saito, will be crowned queen of | the Cherry Blossoms, were announced | after a meeting yesterday afternoon with Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, | honorary chairman of the Festival | Comniittee. The formal ceremonies will start on that day with sunrise exercises from 6 to 7 am., west of the boathouse on the Tidal Basin. The evening pro- gram will start with a concert by the United States Marine Band at 7:45 pm. to 8:15, Capt. Taylor Branson will direct the musical program. With the pageant staged at the Tidal Basin, followed by a fireworks display, more than 100,000 persons are expetced to line the banks of the oval shaped basin. Promptly at 8:15 pm, little Miss Saito will step into a newly built boat | | drawn by a motorized white swan fo: | the. start of the ceremony. Comm: sioner Hazen will place the crown upon her head and pronounce her | queen of the festival. The young| queen will be accompanied by two tendants, her sister Masakasito and Barbara Caldwell, daughter of Mr. and | Mis. Lewis G, Caldwell of 2900 Cleve- land avenue. The committee will set up 5,000 seats for spectators. The price will be 25 cents each. These were placed on sale yesterday at the larger hotels, at the Keystone and American Auto- mobile Associations and the Housing Office.of the Greater National Capi- tal Committee of the Board of Trade and by members of the parent- teacher associations. N. L. R.B. CONSIDERS WILLARD CHARGES Board Prepares Designation of Those Eligible for Elections. . With testimony completed, the Na- | tional Labor Relations Board today | took under advisement the evidence in the complaint that the Willard Hotel on February 28 last discharged Mrs. Mabel Norman, union waitress in their coffee shop, because of testi- mony agamst the management in a previous case before the board. At the same time the board pre- pared to designate those who are eligible to vote in elections to be held in the coffee shop and among the uniformed service employes for the | purposes of determining the bargain- | ing agency of those two units. The | hotel has agreed to an election to be held under board auspices after those eligible to vote are determined. The board’s decision in the Nor- man case and its election order are expected to be issued at the same | time, probably several weeks hence. At yesterday's closing hearing on the Norman discharge complaint Ho- tel Manager Harry P. Somerville told Trial Examiner Edwin S. Smith that the dissension stirred up by Mrs. Norman had turned his coffee shop into a “Donnybrooke fair.” The manager denied flatly that he had dismissed the waitress because of the previous testimony, saying that his only feeling was one of sor- row that she had been “misled” into supporting previous charges against him. ¢ Foening Slar L L3 Jiggs, Mascot of Marines, Dies; Military Rites Planned PAGE B—1 JIGGS. planned a final tribute to a gallant comrade, Sergt. Maj Jiggs, 2d. The pedigreed bulldog died last night after a distinguished career as the mascot of the Marine Corps, dur- ing which he won several promotions Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion, presented Jiggs to the corps on March 22, 1927. Details are now being worked out | for a burial at Quantico Barracks with full military honors. Jiggs was born September 22, 19 ARINES at Quantico today | and joined the Marines as a private. | His excellent behavior and military | bearing soon won him promotion. He was a conspicuous figure at athletic contests in which Marine Corps teams participated. Tunney, a former great interest in the sports contests of the corps. He was particularly fond of Jiggs, a favorite with officers and privates alike The death of Jiggs was announced at Marine Corps headquarters today by Maj. Gen. Charles H. Lyman, com- mandvr of the Quantico po: Marine, took N.A.A WILL HONOR PLANE PASSENGER Bay State Man Purchased Millionth Ticket From American Airlines. Theodore Colcord Baker, Brook- line, Mass, automobile dealer who gained fame by purchasing passenger ticket No. 1000.000 from American Airlines, will be the guest of honor at | a dinner given by the National Aero- nautic Association tonight at lhe Wil- lard Hotel. Second Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Harllee Branch and Fred D. Fagg, jr., director of air commerce, will be the speakers. They will pre- sent to Mr. Baker a round trip ticket to Europe, one crossing to be made on the airship Hindenburg; an N. A. A. silver cup and a gold medallion from the airline. He also will receive a check for $1,000 to cove the expenses of his European trip. ‘“We consider it eminently fitting that anything as significant as the frst 1,000,000ih passenger in the history of any one airline should be properly | observed,” said Charles "F. Horner, | president of the N. A. A., in announc- ing plans for the dinner, said would be attended by approxi- mately 250 aeronautical leaders from all parts of the country. The first official purchaser of a ticket on the airline, Mrs. Gardiner Ficke of Boston, was to have been a guest of honor with Mr. Baker tonight, but was unable to make the trip from Boston because of illness. She made the first flight the night of April 1, 1927, between Boston and New York Baker bought ticket No. 1,000,000 at 8 am. February 16 for the first leg of a fl)g)lt from Boston to Miami. * RAIL EXPERT TO RETIRE A. H. Rudd to Resign Post With the Pennsylvania. Rudd, authority will Alexander Holley on railroad signaling practices, retire tomorrow from active service as | chief signal engineer of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, it was announced today. Rudd’s experience. in dealing with signaling problems has extended over & period of more than 49 years—a longer period, so far as is known, than has been devoted to this branch of railroading by any other profes- sional engineer. His work has been an important influence in the devel- opment of the art of railroad signal- ing throughout America and even abroad. In “War path” A Mohawk brave went on the war- path today, police said, using a hatchet to chop his way through the door of & house at 1927 First street southwest to reach two friends, whom he warned, with & whoop: “Get up. I'm going to scalp both of you!” From his bed Woodrow Clemmons quieted the redskin, whose paleface name is Lawrence Frank Williams, with a well-aimed oil lamp, which struck him above the right eye. When his wound had been treated at Gallinger Hospital, the Mohawk was charged with “threats in a men- acing manner,” despite his insistence it was all a mistake. “Clemmons and his roommate, Don Brozille, and I had been drinking,” de- clared Lawrence, a full-blooded In- dian, whose father is chief of a Mo- hawk reservation near Niagara Falls, N. Y. “Imagine my astonishment when they threw a lamp at me when I walked in on them. I had the hatchet because I had been chopping wood. I fell down when I left the place and hurt my,head.” He fingered the bandage around his head and assured officers he resen their suggestions that he threatened ! First ) Lamp Superior to Hatchet Escapade Here LAWRENCE F. WILLIAMS. —Star Staff Photo. other persons last night with a “long knife.” Williams, who used to be a roper and rider in & Wild West show, lives with ted | his wife and 2-year-old son at 1931 street southwest. [ which he | AVATION RULING MAY BE RELAXED Without Physical Tests Considered. | Liberalization of Federal aviation regulations to permit beginners to take flying instruction without physical ex- amination is being considered by the Bureau of Air Commerce, Director Fred D. Flagg, ir., told delegates to the Intercollegiate Flying Club Conference at its opening session today at the La Fayette Hotel. Under the proposed regulations any Person would be permitted to fly with & competent instructor without under- going any sort of examination up to | the “solo stage.” | mitted to fly alone, however, students would be examined to determine ph,\'slcul fitness and knowledge of fly- ing regulations. Fagg also announced the bureau is considering a new rat- ing for aviation instructors to make certain that instruction is given only by qualified pilots New Inspectors Asked. | The Bureau of Air Commerce is asking Congress for at least 38 new | one-third, Fagg announced Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover, chief of the Army Air Corps, told the conferees the Army may raise the standards for admission to the Air Corps train- ing center from a minimum of two | years of college education to com- pletion of the college course. The Navy will continue to take | about 500 new aviation students a year from the ranks of college grad- | uates, the delegates were told by*Rear | Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief of the | Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. | Other speakers at the opening session were Leighton D. Rogers, president of the Aeronautical Chamber | | of Commerce: Charles F. Horner, | president of the National Aeronautical Association, and Chester H. Warring- ton, president of the Aero Club of Washington. The conference began informally with a reception and smoker given by the Aero Club of Washington last night at headquarters of the National Aeronautic Association, Dupont Circle. More than 100 delegates from 40 colleges are expected to be present before the conference closes with a trophy banquet and dance tomorrow night at the Shoreham Hotel. Three hours of tactical flying and demon- strations of light airplanes were scheduled for this afternoon at Boll- ing Field. SUSPENDED SENTENCES GIVEN FOUR YOUTHS Another Charged With Turn- ing in False Alarm. Three high school youths, all sons of Army officers, were given suspended fines of $50 each and put on proba- tion for a year on conviction today of turning in a false fire alarm last night. They were tried before Judge Isaac R. Hitt, in Police Court, who also gave a suspended fine of $25 and a year’s pro- bation to Andrew L. Chapplear, 20, of 937 C street southwest, who turned in another false alarm early today. The high school boys art Richamd V. Barnum, 17, of 6209 Melville place, Chevy Chase, Md., son of Capt. Charles V. Barnum: William R. Ben- nett, 18, Kenesaw Apartments, son of |Col. C. R. Bennett, and Ward H. ‘? Maris, jr., 18, of 3400 Porter street, son of Maj. W. H. Maris. A fourth youngster, under 16, was arraigned in Juvenile Court and the case contin- ued, subject to call. Policeman H. H. Prince, who ar- rested the boys, suggested the sus- pended fine and probation. Y. M. C. A. Council Chairman. Marcus W. Collins was elected chairman of the new council of the Y. M. C. A at dormitory elections | Jennings, | mass meeting on behalf of {Instruction Up to Solo Stage ‘ Before being per- | aeronautical inspectors, an increase of | Three Sons of Army Officers and | CITIZENS' MEETING GALLED T0 SOLVE EMPLOYABLE AID Plight of Those Out of Job and Denied Relief to Be Presented. CONFERENCE SCHEDULED SUNDAY AT 4:30 P.M. 10,000 Persons in D. C. Familic- Caught Between Joblessness and Reduction of Rolls. Aroused by the desperate conditicx confronting “employable” people w out jobs in this city, a group of Wasi- ingtonians, headed by Coleman arranging a ‘“citizens the un- | employed,” to be held at 4:30 p.m next Sunday at the First Congrega- tional Church, Tenth and G streets. At this meeting, according to mem- bers of the committee, a realistic picture of this situation will be pre- sented in the hope of working out some plan to alleviate the suffering of these citizens. At the present time there are ap- proximately 3,000 men and women heads of families representing ab 10,000 people, who are v and who, because the cannot obtain direct Public Assistance Division Board of Public Welfare. Their is recognized and admitted by the public agency, but curtailment of funds has made it impossible to help any but the nemployables. Hundreds have applied to the private family agencies for aid, only to be told that these agencies are already caring for the utmost possible number their limited appropriations will per- mit. Each of the Chest a encies has reached a point where, to take on Just one more famfly, would mean putting another equally worthy and equally in need off the rolls. Headquarters Set Up. Several weeks ago officials | Family Service Association a cials of the Washington Federation | of Churches met to dev method of helping these peo result was the setting quarters at 1500 Sixteer ree staff representatives of the F: ly Service Association in cha g and a group of volunteers from the various churches who will make a study of the entire situation. That study is now under way. The volunteers are obtaining the necessary information which the trained social workers of the Family Service Association are preparing for analysis. But this survey will not be completed for :nother month. In the meantime hundreds of these men are walking the street: They and .neir families are being evicted from the squalid | quarters that they are forced to call “home.” Their children are suffering from malnutrition from lack of mik. which the head of the house is unable | to purchase. They are subsisting on meager orders for surplus foods and from help which they . “e able tc ge: from neighbors, in many instances in little better circumstances than them- selves. Authentic Stories Told. In a recent series of broadcasts over | Station WISV a group of these people | told their stories. There was no | doubting their authenticity. The men came to the meeting and exhibited | their shoes, worn through in their ceaseless tramp hunting work. They told of threatened eviction from their | homes. One man told of his little girl, taken to a convalescent home | because of “malnutrition.” “And all | the time I knew that it was not mal- | putrition, but plain starvation, because we had not had enough food and no | milk for that baby,” he satd. Committees have gone before the | District of Columbia Commissioners asking them to seek a deficiency ap- | propriation of District of Columbia tax money to help these people. It could not be obtained. There is now a | movement to ask Congress to in- | crease the relief budget of the District | by $1,000,000 for the next fiscal year in order that some relief can be grant- ed people similarly situated. There has been no success in that direction to date. Community Chest officials, asked why Chest money is. not appropri- ated, point out that the Chest is & federation of 65 agencies, banded to- | gether to raise money in one campaign instead of single campaigns. The family agencies, they point out, re- ceived their proportionate share of the money subscribed in the last cam- paign. They admit that it is not enough, but the Budget Committee, a | group of volunteer citizens, has allo- cated all that was obtained. Mass Meeting Arranged. | With this picture before them. the group of citizens comprising the Com- mittee on “Citizens’ Mass Meeting on Behalf of the Unemployed” decided that the only method of bringing this question squarely before the public would be by means of a mass meeting. All the service clubs in the city will be invited to attend. Steps are being taken to bring out people of all ranks. It is hoped to paint the picture so clearly that an aroused citizenry will take some action. Newbold Noyes, associate editor of The Star, tonight at 7:30 o’clock will appear as guest speaker on the pro- gram of “Radio Joe” Kaufman over WMAL to point out the need for action. Mr. Noyes has made extensive studies of conditions among the under= privileged in Washington as an officer | of the Community Chest | The committee, in addition to Chairman Jennings, is composed of Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, Le Roy Halbert, Dr. Worth M. Tippy, Miss Margaret Scattergood, Mrs. Morris C. Betts, Rev. A. F. Elmes, Walter S. Ufford, Adjt. Gilbert S. Decker, Mrs. W. A. Roberts, Milton Porgo= relskin, David Dixon, Miss Dorothy Bailey, Joseph D. Kaufman, Miss Helen A. Shuford, Rev. Laurence J. Shehan, William H. Savin, Maj. Campbell C. Johnson, Miss Louise O. Beall, Morris Klass, Dr. Russell J, is need le up of hea last night in the “¥” Building, 1730 G atreet. A Clinchy, Miss Margaret Jones and Henry C. Barden. A