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Washington News ABSENTEES DELAY "~ D.C.TAXINCREASE| STUDY IN HOUSE Only Two Members of Spe- cial Subcommittee Appear for Duty. KENNEDY TO RENEW EFFORTS ON TUESDAY William A. Roberts, Former Peo- ple’s Counsel, Also Fails to Come to Hearing. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The widely heralded joint investi- gation of the Collins tax increase bills and proposed reorganization of the District government failed to get started on schedule today because only | two members of the special subcom- mittee of the House District Commit- tee assigned to the job reported for duty. Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, the subcommittee chair- man, waited in vain for more than an hour for the members to appear and finally postponed consideration of the program he has outlined for the study until he is assured he will have a quorum at the initial meeting. He announced another effort would be made to hold an organization meeting Tuesday. Six Members on Committee, ‘There are six members on the special subcommittee, including Kennedy. The only one who appeared today was Rep- resentative Allen, Democrat, of Dela- ware. The other members are Representa- tives Nichols, of Oklahoma and Mc- Gehee of Mississippi, Democrats, and Dirksen of Illinois and Cole of New York, Republicans. Kennedy also had invited Wililam A. Roberts, former people’s counsel, to attend and he also failed to appear. A telephone call to his office revealed he was out of the city. Kennedy and planned to recommend the appoint- ment of Roberts as adviser to the sub- committee during the investigation. Within a few days, Kennedy said, he would introduce a resolution pro- viding an appropriation of $10,000 out of the House contingent fund with which to employ Roberts and pay other expenses of the study. Collins Not to Insist. Chairman Collins of the House Sub- 15 are (left to right) Charles D. Presidents’ Committee; Mrs. Pie: Lady Unit, and Commissioner @he Foen WITH fullMY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 8§, Leaders of “Health Crusade” Leaders of the “Crusade for Health” to be ldunched April . Drayton, chairman of Hospital rce Van Vieck, chairman of Gray Melvin C. Hazen. —Star Staff Photo. TRIAL PROCEDURE - BRIEFS ARE ASKED Judge Hitt and Other Jurists to Decide on Jury Case ; Question. | Police Judge Isaac R. Hitt, called on to act as a result of the recent | Supreme Court decision holding that a 90-day jail sentence may be im- | posed in Police Court without a jury trial, today ordered counsel in two cases involving soliciting to file briefs within five days in support of their | contention that the high court ruling | does not apply in such cases. | The question arose when Assistant | United States Attorneys A. B. Caldwell and Eugene Carusi appeared before D.C.ROADAIDBILL - ISSENTTOHOUSE Three Other Local Measures Are Approved by Senate. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Approved unanimously by the Sen- ate, two bills to include Washington | in the Federal-aid highway system | and to tighten the automobile safety responsibility law today are on the way to the House, which has not yet considered them. Two other local bills that went | through the Senate yesterday had passed the House previously, and are en route to the White House to be signed. These two are: Authorizing bowling alleys to open committee on District Appropriations, | Judge Hitt in Jury Court and objected | on Sundays from 2 p.m. to midnight, who sponsored the tax bills, has said he would not insist that all of them be enacted, but only those necessary to offset the anticipated $6,000,000 deficit in District revenues in the coming fiscal year. When Collins introduced the bills he estimated they would yield more than $12,000.000 a year in additional | affirmed a decision of the Court of | by filing in the Senate its favorable ! ss above | Appeals, which earlier had reversed report on the Walsh measure to in- revenue, and said the exct to jury trials for Sadie Hope and Lewis Brown, both colored. Judge Hitt then certified the cases back to the United States branch for trial by the court. On receipt of the briefs, a meeting of the Police Court judges will be held to decide on a uniform procedure. The Supreme Court last Monday and increasing the annual Federal allotment for vocational rehabilita- tion work here from $15,000 to $25,000, to be matched by the same amount from District funds. At the same time the Senate Naval Affairs Committee paved the way for early action on another local bill budget needs could be set aside as|a Police Court verdict, and ordered | crease Washington's authorized quota a surplus to reduce real estate taxes |& new trial for Ethel Clawans, Who!of appointments to the Annapolis in the 1939 fiscal year. Kennedy and |had been convicted without a jury | Naval Academy from 5 to 15, which Nichols have taken the position the original Collins program should be shaved down to meet actual budget needs. | CHILDREN’.SBUREAU | DINNER FOR 500 Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Signing of Bill to Be Ob- served This Evening. Observing the twenty-fifth an- niversary of the signing of the bill which created the Children’s Bureau, | more than 500 persons, many of whom were instrumental in the bureau's establishment, will attend a dinner at | 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Mayflower Hotel. | A message is to be read from the President, and Mrs. Roosevelt will be | an honor guest and will address the | gathering. Senator Borah of Idaho, who spon- | sored the bill signed by President Taft on April 9, 1912, will head the list of | speakers. Secretary of Labor Perkins and Miss Grace Abbott, for many years chief of the Children’s Bureau, | also will appear on the program. Miss Katharine F. Lenroot, present chief of the bureau, will make the Tesponse. BAND CONCERTS. By the Soldiers'’ Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John | 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. Program. March, “The Victorian Phalanx,” Morse Overture, “A Roumanian Festival,” Kretschmer Buite Espagnole, “Andalucia,” Miramontis 1. “A Castle in Span.” . “Merrymaking.” . “Dulcinea Dreams.” . “A Tale of the Troubadours.” Bcenes from the opera, “Midsummer Night's Dream”.__ Mendelssohn A Southern sketch, “Alabama Twilight” __.__ i e i L Popuiar waltz song, “Laugh, Clown, Laugh” (requested)_. __ ___Fiorito Finale, “Sons of New Zealand,” Lithgow “The Star-Spangled Banner.” By the United States Army Band in the Army Band auditorium at 4:30 pm. today. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, conductor. Program. Selection from the ballet, “Prince Ador” -----Rybner Duet for carnet and trombone, “A Little Love, a Little Kiss”.___Sileau Ralph Ostrom, cornet, and Clarence Hurrel, trombone. Novelty fox trot, “Swamp Fire,” Mooney Second sonata, “Siciliano” Intermezzo, “In South America,” Missud March, “The American Red Cross,” Panella “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Milk Sales Gain. Milk sold in England in January totaled 2,018,066 more gallons than & year ago. . < trial on charges of selling railroad tickets without a license. The appellate court had held the woman was en- titled to a jury trial. In affirming the decision, Supreme Court rejected this plea, but granted the new trial on other grounds, namely, that defense counsel had not been given adequate oppor- tunity for cross-examination. With Justices McReynolds and Butler dissenting, the high court held that a violation carrying a sen- tence of 90 days was not too serious to justify denial of a jury trial. Since the earlier decision of the Court of Appeals, rendered on March 2, 1936, jury trials have been granted all persons charged with soliciting, a privilege that now is attacked by the United States attorney’s office. The maximum penalty for soliciting is 90 days or a $100 fine, or both. $500 BOND HOLDS GIRL IN SHOOTING Employer, on Stand, Testifies He Struck Stenographer After Dismissing Her. Miss Irene Tadlock, 19-year-old stenographer, today was ordered held in $500 bond for the grand jury on charges of shooting her employer, John S. McCauley, 32, through the arm in his home, 1762 Columbia road, on March 30. At a preliminary hearing before Police Court Judge John P. Me- Mahon, dismissed Miss Tadlock before she shot him. Tnder questioning, he ad- mitted he struck the girl “to put her in her place.” Attorneys for Miss Tadlock forced McCauley to admit he had served five years in a Maryland prison for attempted murder and that at present he is under indictmeni here on em- bezzlement charges. McCauley said he met Miss Tad- lock while she was hitch-hiking to Washington from her home in Brice- ville, Tenn. Policeman Robert Jones said Miss Tadlock told him she was an expert shot and that she shot McCauley through the arm io keep him from hurting her. Attorneys Dorsey K. Offutt, William | A. Lowe and Fred J. Icenhower de- | fended the girl. U. S. URGED :TO WIDEN FOREST PURCHASE PLAN Extension of the Federal forest pur- chase program to the point where it would contribute to a sustained yield of timber throughout the country was recommended today by the Public Timber Acquisition and Disposition Committee of the Forest Conservation Conference. This recommendation will be em- bodied in a report on the work of the entire conference, to be sub- mitted tonight at a benquet at the Mayflower Hotel and to the closing session of the conference tomorrow. Col. W. B. Greely, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen’s Asso- ciation, Seattle, who presided over the committee meeting, will deliver the reports in an address tonight, | McCauley testified he had | corresponds to the number authorized for the smaller States, on the basis of their representation in Congress. | Appointments Would Total 12. toe | tice, however, Congress does not pro- | | dive funds for the full authorized | quota here or elsewhere. For that | reason, the effect of the bill will be to increase the number of District men at the academy from 4 to 12. | The appointments would be made gradually at the rate of 4 a year. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mas- sachusetts, announced a new amend- ment requiring not less than five ington to receive a local appointment, | | the District’s quota. The Walsh bill probably will be considered by the Senate within a week. The Federal-aid highway would entitle the District to $609,000 as its | propriation of $125,000,000 for the entire country. As in the States and Territories, the District would match this allotment from local funds. Argument for Road Fund. In support of the bill the District Committee pointed out that Washing- ton is the only political subdivision of the United States not included in the Federal-aid highway system. It was also brought out that Washington is a connecting link between the North and South, with a heavy flow main arterial highways. The autamobile safety amendment will have the effect of enabling traffic authorities to suspend permits of drivers who fail to pay court judg- ments resulting from accident dam- age, until financial responsibility is established, regardless of how small the judgment claim may be. Under existing law the permits can be sus- pended only if the unpaid judgment amounts to more than $100. Stop Match Smuggling. Seven Japanese and 43 Chinese match plants at Shanghai and Tient- sin have combined to stop the smug- gling of foreign matches into China. | years of actual residence in Wash-| designed to prevent temporary resi-| dents from being appointed out of | share of the present total annual ap- | of interstate traffic passing over its| “HEALTH CRUSADE™ HERE IS PLANNED BY NINE HOSPITALS Civic Leaders Join in Move to Provide Better Facilities. SERVICES OF DOCTORS CITED BY CHAIRMEN Drive Should Lower ‘Unneces- sarily High” Death Rate, Dr. Ruhland Says. Groundwork for the “Crusade for Health,” to be sponsored from April 15 through May 1 by Washington's nine united hospitals, was laid yesterday at a luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel, attended by more than 250 persons representing the city's hospitals, churches, Government health agen- cies, civic erganizations and private homes. Charles D. Drayton, Children’s Hospital and chairman of the Hospital Presidents’ Committee, sounded the keynote of the movement in an appeal to “make the people of Washington more hospital-conscious than ever before, so that our hos- pitals will no longer have to operate at a deficit, and more adequate facili- ties can be provided to care for the vast overflow of patients who now receive only inadequate care when the best is needed.” The existing emergency can not be blamed on the Community Chest, he insisted, but the crusade, on the other hand, should impress the people of Washington with the importance of | the Chest and the necessity of in- | creasing their support of that organ- ization. Record of Unpaid Care. The first two months of this year find 3,560 days’ care for patients cer- tified by the Central Admitting Bureau unpaid, in spite of payment for 7,860 days by the Community Chest, and over 10,000 prenatal, syphillis and other clinic visits unpaid, in spite of Chest payments for 22,000 such visits, it was revealed. In assuring Washingtonians that time and energy spent on the crusade | will be well applied, Chairman Dray- ton cited the “millions of dollars in time” spent by doctors to care for the needy sick in the hospitals, who have little or no money to pay for the service. “Hospitals are not built for the con- venience of, nor as money-making ma- chines for doctors,” he said. “All the money spent on them spells service to the public, and more money must go to our hospitals in order for them to render adequate service. No one con- nected with a hospital is overpaid. To the contrary, all too many of the at- taches are underpaid.” That death rates in the District from certain diseases are ‘“excessively and unnecessarily high,” and how the pending crusade should prove bene- ficial in their lowering was pointed out by Dr. George C. Ruhland, District health officer. “Deplorable Conditions.” “While we know deplorable health | know the causes and apparently Con- gress is coming to our aid,” he said. | “Meanwhile, the citizens of the Dis- trict can go far toward altering the | picture by supporting such a drive as | the United Hospitals are planning. I am confident that the District health record is facing a change for the better.” The luncheon invocation was pro- | nounced by Bishop James E. Free- man, president of Episcopal Hospital. Cannon Anson Phelps Stokes, Corpora- tion Counsel Elwood Seal, Commis- sioner Melvin C. Hazen and Rev. Arthur A. O’Leary were among the many prominent persons seated at the speakers’ table. In addition to Drayton and Bishop | Freeman, the Hospital Presidents’ Committee includes Capt. ‘Wells, Columbia Hospital, Maj. Gist | Blair, Emergency Hospital; Clarence A. Aspinwall, Garfield Hospital; Father O'Leary, Georgetown Hospital; Cloyd H. Marvin, George Washington Hos- pital; Col. Joseph F. Randall, Homeo- pathic Hospital, and Sister Margaret, Providence Hospital. KENTUCKY LAWMAKER'S TRIAL IRKED BY OHIOAN Forgery Charge Against State Senator Murphy Brought to Supreme Court. BY the Associated Press. A Hamilton County, Ohio, official arranged with Supreme Court attaches | | effort to bring State Senator John T. Murphy of Kentucky to tria. on a charge of forgery. Assistant Prosecutor Carson Hoy said he would enter a petition for re- view as soon as he could obtain an official record of proceedings in Ken- ton County. Ky. He said he wanted the high tribunal to pass on a decision by Judge North- cutt of Kenton County refusing to order Murphy's removal to Ohio. | Henry Gilligan ended nearly 11 years of service on the Board of Education yesterday. His resignation takes effect today and his successor, Gratz E. Dunkum, was to Be sworn in this morning. A basket of flowers from the Teach- ers Union was at his place in the board room at the Franklin School when he arrived for the meeting. | Every member was present. The regular order of business had proceeded for about an hour when Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, president of the board, arose and announced she had to leave. She would turn the meeting over to Vice President Gilli- gan, she said, adding: ‘Before I go I want to say some- thing about Mr. Gilligan. The board owes him s debt of gratitude for his faithful attendance and his diligent committee work. His i-wh School Board Voices Regrets As Gilligan Ends Long Service | to all questions has been that of a Christian gentleman and his decisions have been motivated by justice and kindness toward every one. I say good by in the old Anglo-Saxon sense of God be with you.” One by one the members voiced their regret at his leaving. Some spoke serjously; others were humorous, but all expressed regret. Dr. Frank W. Ballou hoped that their long friendship would continue. Gilligan, visibly affected, arose and thanked them. “I hate to leave you,” he said. “I have very good reasons or I would never have done it. I am very fond of every one of you—I might say I love you all.” His final suggestion to the board regarding future educational policies was: “Test all things; hold that which is good.” president of | 3 | conditions exist in the District, we also | | Under existing appropriation prac- | Chester | today to file litization next week in an | [ 4 SCHOOL EMPLOYES GIVEN APPROVAL ON QUTSIDE WORK Board Requires Full Atten- tion to Educational Du- ties, However. BAN ON MAGAZINE SCHOLASTIC LIFTED Publication Removed From Ap- proved List in December Due to “Pacifistic Policy.” | can pursue outside occupations with- out detracting from their principal duties had the support of the Board of Education today, that group hav- ing placed itself on record yesterday as unanimously opposed to a bill pro- hibiting such outside employment. Expressing themselves by voting on a resolution offered by Henry I. Quinn, board members were reminded by the sponsor of the resolution that per- mission necessary for an employe to work outside of his school duties never is given, if it interferes with the de- mands of the department or unrea- sonably deprives some unemployed person of a job. Magazine Ban Lifted. At the same meeting, the board | settled a second controversial mat- | ter by voting, 7 to 1, to lift its ban on the magazine Scholastic. Scholastic, removed from the ap- | proved list last December because | of its alleged “pacifistic policy,” was | then approved for use in English | courses in the schools by a vote of | 6 to 2. The specification of the Eng- |lish department was made following |an explanation by Supt. Frank. W Ballou that the periodical was pub- | lished in two issues—one for the Eng- | lish department and the other for the | social scierce department in schools | The social science groups here, he said, di not use the periodical and hence the English section is the only | one affected The objection of the board has |been to two planks in an Armistice | day issue four years ago, which sug- | gested students should not serve in war unless it is declared by popular referendum and that capital as well |as men should be conscripted in case | of a conflict Action Forecast. | The revocation was not unexpected |as both Mrs. Phillips Sidney Smith {and Henry Gilligan, retiring vice | president of the board, had indicated at previous meetings their intent to | request reconsideration of the matter. | Gilligan, who with six others had voted against the magazine when it | was barred, explained his change of | mind as due to a conviction that the publication had been judged on the basis of a single issue—that of Armis- tice day, 1933. “I had understood from the editorial in the issue of November 11 that | pacifism was the whole policy of the periodical,” he explained. “Studies of | subsequent issues and interviews with | the publisher, M. R. Robinson, con- | vinced me that I was wrong.” | Firm on Original Objection. ‘ Still insisting that he did not ap- ;provp of the pacifistic issue which had been condemned, Gilligan never- theless declared he found no improper 'propaganda in the columns of later | issues. | George M. Whitwell, the lone vote against the repeal, declared he would | not support the measure because Rob- | inson had given no assurance that the | same thing would not happen again. | “When we pressed Robinson on | that point in the hearing last Decem- | ber he evaded the issue,” Whitwell | charged. “He might do the same thing again at any time.” Mrs. Mary A. McNeill, who alone had voted against the ban originally, | editor to tell what a future policy would be due to the changing trend of public opinion. Although the board reversed its de- cision, it did not accept the report of the Teacher Committee, which had been overruled by the ban. The com- mittee has recommended not only the | approval of the magazine, but its pur- chase out of public funds. The board would not subscribe to the latter sug- gestion. In connection with the outside em- ployment bill, members were furnished with a copy of a letter from Supt. Ballou to the corporation counsel in February claiming he had established definitely the fact that the employment bill was prompted by a person in the District against Dr. E. N. C. Barnes, | director of music in the public schools. Barnes also teaches at the Washington Musical Institute. . Rehabilitation Shift Approved. The board also-approved the sug- gestion that the vocational rehabilita~ tion in the District be transferred from the Federal Office of Education in the Interior Department to the Board of Education provided some provision be made that the board would not have two types of employes under it—those in civil service and those not. Unable to take up the school budget question because of the late hour when it was reached on the docket, the members called a special meeting Saturday at 10 a.m. to discuss it. « Playground Action Deferred. Asserting that acceptance of the proposed transfer of playgrounds from the District Playground Department to the Community Center Department is tantamount to a reversal of the board’s previous position under the co-ordina- tion agreement, Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith asked that the board restate its attitude. Quinn objected, saying he saw no reason to take any action. The issue was postponed till Saturday. The group ratified the appointment of N. A. Danowsky, for nearly five years chief accounting consultant in the child accounting and statistics division of the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction, as statistician to fill the place left vacant when John F. Brougher was promoted to assistant principal of Central High School last- November. e 12,400 Cars in Country. ‘Yugoslavia now has 12,400 automo- biles, giving her twenty-fourth place in European car mmflc.l. ny Stap 1937. Society and General K xxx Working Girl Sniffs at $16.50 Health and Morals Standard PAGE B—1 MARYLAND BOOKIE RUNNER BAN HERE School Department employes who | declared that it was difficult for an | | | Shown above are Miss 1922 and Miss 1937, as revealed by April advertisements in The Evening Star of those years, dressed for afternoon in comparable strolling costumes. | PUSHED I HOUSE Four Members Move to “Protect” Capital From Nearby Gamblers. TAKING OF BETS HINGES ON LAW INTERPRETATION Sacks Believes Measure He Of- fered February 16 Would Take Care of Situation. Stirred by reports that agents for legalized bookmaking establishme: in Prince Georges County, Md., ma be permitted to operate in Washingte four members of the House Distri Committee moved today to preve such a situation The question as to whether runne for the gambling establishments could accept money in the District to b: “bet” in Maryland, apparently hinge on a legal interpretation as to what | establishes the status of a wager Without waiting for an official rul- | ing, the four members of the District | Back in the dim days of 1922 the Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia decided that $16.50 per week was sufficient to keep woman workers in mercantile occupations “in good health and to protect their morals.” Their model budget for this income was broken into three main classifica- tions, with $9.30 allotted for room and board, $4 for clothing and $3.20 for sundries Shortly after milady of 1922 found her fiscal affairs thus outlined for her, however, the Supreme Court, feeling itself not concerned primarily with protecting the morals of feminine mer- cantile workers, declared the District's minimum wage law unconstitutional. Some 10 days ago the Supreme Court changed its mind and declared the moral-protecting law was all right. Is $16.50 Enough? The immediate issue, therefore, is the determination of a minimum wage | level at which the working girl of 1937 | may maintain her health and morals at the same safe standards as those of 1922. In other words, will $16.50 do the job? Directing every resource to the | problem, a Star reporter found a work- | ing girl who confessed to good health and moraljty. She roomed and boarded, she ad- mitted, but she didn't go it on $9.30 per week. Instead., after several in- | stances of jeopardizing both her health and her morals, she had located an | establishment where she could live for 1810 per week, but without | feature of the 1922 subject's board and | room arrangement 1937 girl informed us, cost her at least $1.50 per week, even when she slept late on Sunday or went to lunch at | least once with the “boy friend.” Balks at Clothing Budget. It was on the clothing budget that the 1937 model waxed most informa- tive. In fact, when she was shown a in 1922 with a list of clothing articles needed by the well-dressed minimum- wage girl of that year Miss 1937 threatened to become hysterical She choked hardest over the stock- |ing analysis of 1922, which reads as follows: “It has been very difficult to judge stockings because the budget only al- lowed a lump sum of $5 without speci- | fying numbers, kind or quality. Fifty | cents will buy a durable cotton stock- ing. It is too warm for Summer wear and the dyes in some makes are not a good black. Seventy-five cents will buy fairly light-weight lisle stockings of even texture, durable and good looking. Two dollars will buy a good- looking silk stocking with lisle garter tops and no noticeable weighting.” No girl, she explained, with dignity, ever wears cotton or lisle stockings any more. And the cheapest silk or rayon hose that will last through a day’s work costs 49 cents per pair. Furthermore, she added, it requires an average of one pair per week, with |a few extras at sligntly higher cost | for an occasional social event. Con- servatively, that meant $25 per year for stockings. Accepts Some of Items. Although she sniffed somewhat con- temptuously at some of the selections, she said she would accept the idea of a wool suit and could buy it for $30 instead of $39.75 as in 1922, she would take a wool dress for $20 instead of $25 and a cloth Winter coat at $40. Having to make a “dress-up” dress last two years aroused her indigna- tion and she insisted it would cost $30 rather than $25. She didn’t want any $7 wool skirt, she said, but would find it necessary to pay $9 for an imitation Harris tweed. The girl's thoughts on the 1922 underwear budget were unprintable. She didn’t wear union suits, she ex- plained quietly, nor envelope chemises, did she wear outing flannel night- gowns in the Winter nor cotton ones in the Summer. She admitted, however, that her present day substitutes, brassieres, pants, slips and rayon nightgowns, were cheaper by individual garments than their predecessors, with the total cost being about the same. Hat Standard Lifted. On the subject of hats, the 1937 model admitted that three per year might be sufficient, but that the 1922 piece at $3.95, designed to last two years, could have no place in the pres- ent scheme of things. If she has to make a hat last two years, our friend explained, it would have to be some durable and “classic” sports model. It would cost more than $3.95. All in all, 1937 explained, her cloth- ing was going to run closer to $5 per week than the $4 allotted in 1922. Turning to the sundry budget, Miss 1937 admitted a willingness to scrape along on most of the items given there, but sort of upset things by insisting on including $4 per year for cosmetics, $5 per year for hairdressing and an extra $10 per year for cleaning. Then, A lunch, a | Her lunches, the | study made by the Woman's Bureau | nor underskirts, nor petticoats. Neither | | she confessed, she liked an occasional | | cigarette at a cost of about $5 per | | year. These additions brought the | sundry budget up to about $3.70 per | | week. Becoming mathematical, we added the three 1937 totals, $11.50 for room | and beard, plus lunch, $5 for clothing and $3.70 for sundries, and found we had $20.20. At this point a graph from the Bureau of Labor St. cs rolled into vision and made it plain that costs of living have declined by roughly some 10 per cen ce 1922. T circumstance dida’t phase the 1937 model, who insisted that protection of health and morals is a more dif- ficult task in these days than in the years when Bill Sunday was keeping people on the sawdust 1 We suppose, then, our 1937 girl was told .that you can maintain your health and morals on $20.20 per | week “Let's see you answer. EXD. . ATTORNEY DESINEAPLOSIN Samuel Wittlin Is Killed in ' New York Gas Blast. Samuel Wittlin, 38, former junior | attorney in the office of the solicitor | of the Labor Department, was killed | in New oY¥rk City yesterday in a gas explosion which bulged out the side |of a 16-story East Side apartment | house, wrecking two apartments. Widow Is Washingtonian. Wittlin's widow, the former Ida ‘Weisblatt, daughter of Jacob Weis- blatt, a grocer living at 2601 I street, returned home from a shopping tour about 5 o'clock, three hours after the explosion, to find her husband dead. According to the Associated Press, Acting Chief Medical Examiner Thomas A Gonzales said Wittlin, for- mer assistant corporation counsel of New York City, apparently committed | suicide. The Associated Press dis- | patch said open gas jets were found | | in his apartment, as were letters which District Attorney Sylvester Cosentino said revealed Wittlin was seeking em- ployment. Mrs. Wittlin, 27, also is an attorney. She attended Business High School | and took her law course at National Law School. She was admitted to the District bar last year. Married Here. try it,” was her The Wittlins were married here | about a year ago and had been living in New York about six months. Mrs. Wittlin was employed in the Resettle- ment Administration prior to moving at 1729 P street, was employed in the Labor Department from February, 1936, until the following August. The explosion in the apartment house shattered glass for a block around, and another tensnt, three floors below the blast, suffeyed shock. | Because of a slight bulge in the front | of the building, police roped off the | street to keep back thousands of per- sons. The building houses 140 families, including that of David | Dubinsky, American Labor party leader, president of the International | Ladies Garment Workers Union and | one of the presidential electors for the | | Democratic ticket in the last election. 'BUSINESS COUNCIL CONSIDERS PARLEY Advisory Group Debates Asking | Aid in Drafting Co-operative Program. By the Assoclated Press. The Business Advisory Council con- sidered today whether it would seek the aid of labor and agriculture in drafting a co-operative program to solve major economic problems. Secretary Roper has suggested that | the council arrange a ‘“general wel- fare conference” of industry, labor' and agriculture here to chart a com- | mon approach to questions of wages, hours, child labor and production control. The council, composed of private business men who advise the Com- merce Department, has been working some time on wage and hour and low-cost housing programs of its own. The program was discussed at the council’s Executive Committee meet~ ing yesterday, it was said, but final to New York. Wittlin, who lived here | Committee are determined to have legislation ready for consideration of Congress to curb the agents if the | courts should hold their activities legal under existing law Bill Introduced February 16. Representative Sacks, Democrat, o Pennsylvania, one of the active me; bers of the District Committee, £ | lieves a bill he introduced February 16, designed primarily to prevent the in- terstate transmission of gambling de- vices, will meet any situation that may arise in Washing opening of legalized ga lishments in Prince Georges His measure is now pendin n of or instrument or to represent a ti or interest in or depe event of a lottery, similar scheme. pendent in whole or in part on a lot or chance.” It would apply to person who “knowingly” receives suc papers or certificates, and subje them, upon conviction, to a penalty of a fine of $1,000, or two years’ imprison- ment, or both. nder my bill,” Sacks declared person who accepts money in the strict to be bet in Maryland would be violating the law. Brewster to See Seal. Representative Brewster, Republican of Maine said he would confer with Corporation Counsel Seal about the situation created by the opening of legal gambling houses in Prince Georges County. He expressed belie: however, that existing laws would police authority to break up the or erations in the District of agents the Maryland gambling houses | Representatvie Palmisano, De: | crat, of Maryland, vice chairman the District Committ has an- nounced his intention of “going alor with any members of Congress aim it is to curtail business in W ington of the Prince Georges C: gambling establishments. FEES MAY BE BOOSTED. Prince Georges May Increase $25 Minimum Charge. By s Staff Correspondent ot (he star UPPER MARLBORO, Md., April —Sharp reductions in the Prir Georges County tax rate for 1932 | after the receipt of fees for bookma ing licenses were foreseen today : | officials predicted a drop of at le: ‘4 cents for every permit issued by t} | Board of County Commissioners. | The 4-cent reduction is based ¢ | the $25,000 minimum fee set by t | legalization law. The commissioner | however, may increase the price move predicted today by Commissior. Joseph H. Blandford of Clinton, w! has made a specialty of tax work il his administrative duties. Every $6,000 in additional revenu | to the county means a reduction « |about 1 cent in the levy. If thr | permits, at $25,000 each, were iss the reduction in the tax rate would | be at least 12 cents. Blandford said today that the board probably will not attempt to figure bookmaking revenue in setting the rate | for the coming year. This levy must | be established and signed by Monday. | He pointed out that the board has no | guarantees that any one will apply for a license, “although it seems to be generally accepted that at least one permit will be sought.” WILL SIGN BILL APRIL 15. Nice Also Agreed to 0. K. State Bond Measure. ANNAPOLIS, April 8 () —The problem of finding bookmakers whom he could tax under the new law legal- izing and taxing bookmaking, yester- day caused Controller William 8. Gordy, jr., to ask Gov. Harry W. Nice to sign the State relief bill April 15. The Governor agreed to sign both that and the bond issue bill. Gordy has a problem in finding the bookmakers he is supposed to tax to raise an estimated $499,999 If the bookmakers are known to exist, by any legal authority, it would be the duty of that authority to re- port them to police for violating the law. Gordy’s only chance is that they will report themselves and ask for licenses. If they do not he will have to depend on the findings of his in- spectors to bring them within his scope. NAMED D. C. PRINCESS Miss Maria Milne Whitehurst to Go to Charleston Azalea Fete. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen to- day appointed Miss Maria Milne Whitehurst as “Princess Washington™ to represent the Distrirt of Columbia at the fourth annual azalea festival in Charleston, S. C.,, the week of April 11 to 17. Miss Whitehurst is the daughter of Capt. and Mrs. H. C. Whitehurst, di- action today was not expected. ] rector of District highways. ’