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HOUSE TO INSPECT “NAVAL HOSPITAL IN'DEBATE ON SITE Committee Hears Rossiter Urge New and Larger Location. FACILITIES ALREADY REDUCED, HE SAYS 10 Acres Held Inadequate for Medical Center—Modernization Costs Set at Million. Seeking more intimate knowledge of facilities at the Naval Hospital in order to have a better background for de- ciding whether or not the proposed new Navy Medical Center should be located on the present site, the House Committee on Naval Affairs will visit the institution tomorrow morning. The inspection trip was arranged during a hearing this morning on the bill by Chairman Vinson, which would authorize the construction of a new medical center either on the present site of the Naval Hospital or in the vicinity of Washington. Surg. Gen. Perceval S. Rossiter of the Navy, the only witness, presented & comprehensive argument as to why & new and larger site elsewhere was needed. He presented a factual state- ment at the opening of the hearing and was questioned by several mem- bers of the committee. Present Site Inadequate. ‘The present site of the Naval Hos- pital, Admiral Rossiter said, was in- adequate. “The need for replacement of the Washington hospital facilities, which existed six years ago,” he said, *“has subsequently become more urgent. The present buildings are inadequate and obsolete and have | reached a piont where expenditures for maintenance are large and un- economical. The bed capacity has had to be reduced from 600 to 178, as many buildings of wartime constru- tion have so deteriorated that aban- donment as hospital space has become necessary. Buildings of permanent oonstruction also have deteriorated to & degree where special safety precau- tions have had to be installed. Esti- mated bare maintenance costs for the next seven years are $276,753. Any epproximation toward modernization of this plant would cost at least $1,000,000 and the facilities would still be inadequate.” Explaining that an act of 1931 au- thorized a new Naval Hospital on the present site, while the pending new legislation would locate it elsewhere, the Surgeon General said the change of location was ‘‘deemed necessary by the fact that the present site of less than 10 acres of land, available for building, is inaedquate even for the present needs and wholly inadequate for any necessary emergency or war- time expansion.” He pointed out the present site also was noisy because of nearby high- ways and airplane routes overhead. Suggested Limitation. “Should the Naval Affairs Commit- tee desire to limit the amount of funds estimated for the purchase of & site,” the surgeon general said, “it i~ suggested that such limitation be 15 per cent of the authorized ex- penditure.” The Vinson bill provides a total cost of land and construction of $4,850,000, as compared with a total of $3,200,000 n the act of February, 1931, making the net increase cost to the Govern- ment $1,650,000. On questioning by Chairman Vinson, Admiral Rossiter admitted that one factor in the Navy's desire to move was the location of a proposed big ‘War Department Building in the same general neighborhood. The plans for & proposed new Naval Hospital, as shown to the committee in a large inting, had been approved by the ne Arts Commission several years ago, the surgeon general said, but the problem had not been presented to the Fine Arts Commission since the proposed War Department had been located not far away. Vinson ex- plained the War Department had not yet been authorized, but that a £5,000,000 appropriation to begin con- struction would come up in the next deficiency bill. NEW WORK-WEEK BILL REVAMPED Senator Maloney Proposes Jobless Census Through Existing Gov- ernment Facilities. By the Associated Press. Senator Maloney, Democrat, of Con- necticut, has revamped his bill to establish a flexible work week based on a Nation-wide unemployment cen- sus to meet objections to the cost of * such a survey. Instead of proposing separate census machinery, Maloney said yesterday, he ‘will suggest use of existing Government facilittes or an organization similar to the one used by the World War Draft Board. ‘The Senate Commerce Committee ordered hearings on Maloney's bill, de- spite President Roosevelt’s comment he did not believe a census of the unemployed necessary. Maloney said he preferred that the federal-State employment offices con- duct the census, with the unemployed required to register every three months. His bill would authorize a national zommission to proclaim a work week ranging from 30 hours, when 8,000,000 or more are unemployed, to 40 hours when 2,000,000 or less are out of work. Goods manufactured in violation of /hése regulations would be banned in interstate commerce and the Govern- ment would be prohibited from buying supplies from or loaning money to vio- lators. Democrats to Dance. FAIRFAX, Va., May 17 (Special).— Members of the Fairfax County and Falls Church Young Democratic Clubs will hold a benefit dance at Boulevard Farms on the Mount Vernon Boule- vard tomorrow evening, beginning at 9:30 pm. | tively even lower rates. @he Foen WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1937. ® WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Stap Jimmy Whalen, an old timer, directs erection of the tent. The big; tent builders at work getting ready for today’s performance. NEW WIRE RATES EFFECT SAVINGS New Overnight Charges Go Into Effect June 1 to Save $3,000,000. Cost of telegraph message will be greatly reduced when new rates of overnight telegraph service go into effect June 1, according to statements today by representatives of the West- ern Union Telegraph Co. and the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. B. R. Allen, local superintendent and executive representative of West- ern Union, said the new tariff sched- ule, which has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission, will reduce the cost of both short and long night messages and cut the telegraph bill of the Natijon by ap- proximately $3,000,000. In a statement received today by Postal officials here, Clarence H. Mackay, chairman of the board of the Postal Telegraph, said: “I consider this the most important rate reduction in all telegraph history. It is being done, frankly, to place the telegraph facilities at the disposal of American business and social needs for overnight communications of let- ter length. We believe that the new rates will make it practical for busi- ness men to telegraph urgent reports, instructions, specifications and other communications requirihg a certain amount of detail, as well as assured delivery. Such a widespread exten- sion of the Postal Telegraph service, in terms of cost to the public, I be- lieve, is going to revolutionize the in- dustry.” 25 Words Allowed. Allen said the effect of the re- ductions “is that the charge for 25 words will be the same as, and in some cases lower than, the present charge for a 10-word night message, and that long messages can be sent at rela- “The 10-word night message will be discontinued and the initial charge for night letters will be for 25 words, instead of for 50, as at present. The maximum charge for a 25-word night letter will be 50 cents, even for the greatest distances in the United States. “Words In excess of 25 will be charged for in groups of five, instead of 10, as at present. The rates start at an unprecedently low level and de- crease progressively as the length of the message increases, resulting in added-word rates as low as 1 cent for five words for messages sent a short distance, and for night letters sent over the greatest distances from Wash- ington, 9 cents for five words in short messages and 3% cents for five words sent in excess of 200.” A Cut of 53 Per Cent. Postal's schedule also eliminates the 10-word night message and estab- lishes a base of 25 words, for which charges are the same or less than the present cost of the 10-word night mes- sage. The present 50-word night let- ter also is eliminated by the 25-word night letter, the base rate of which is reduced to 50 cents between the two most widely separated points in the country. Postal officials explained the effect of the new rates would, for instance, reduce the cost of a 300-word night letter from Washington to the West Coast from $7.20 to $3.40, a reduc- tion of about 53 per cent. On the new basis, 300 words can be sent to \+ployes of the Ringling Bros, and Bar- CIRCUS ENPLOYES CONSIDER UNlUN For Start of 3-Day Run Today “The Greatest Show on Earth” Begins Superintendent Has Advised | All Workers to Join, He ‘Declares. The question of unionizing the em- | num & Bailey Combined Shows will | be discussed tomorrow by Sam W.| Gumpertz, superintendent of the cir- | cus, and Ralph Whitehead, secretary of | the Actors’ Federation. The show Qpened a three-day stand here today. Collective bargaining hit the saw- dust trail last week in Brooklyn, Gum- pertz said, and by next Monday, when the tents go up in Philadelphia, he expects that he and Whitehead will have signed an agreement calling for recognition of the union and for a return to the base-pay scale of 1931, when the late John Ringling cut the wages during the depression. “I am for the unionization,” Gumpertz said. “This is an age of unions, and I think it will quiet the men'’s minds if they join. So I have advised them all to sign up with it. It will make it easier for me, too, be- cause I have a contract covering all my employes, I will have to deal only with one man instead of separately with all departments.” s Gumpertz, uncertain what the wage scale was in 1931, planned to look up his six-year-old pay rolls this morn- ing to enable him,to compute the amount of money involved in the general raises. Gumpertz and White- head will come to no agreement on maximum working time. “There are no hours in the circus,” Gumpertz said. The raise will benefit about 75 per cent of the lot's 1,600 employes. Most | headline performers are under con- tract and get far above the min- imums proposed by the federation. | The musicians have long been union- | ized, and so have the bill-posters. The Actors’ Federation is an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. The Committee for Industrial Organ- ization, Gumpertz said, could not unionize his show because the musi- clans want special consideration. Roustabouts, “bull men,” teamsters, clowns, Wild West Indians, canvas men, midgets, living skeletons, barkers, ‘bearded ladies—they and all the rest of the extraordinary citizens on the Ringling pay roll will be blanketed under the protecting wing of the Wag- ner act if Gumpertz meets White- head’s proposals. Whitehead is com- ing to Washington from his New York headquarters for tomorrow’s parley. P.W. A, PLANS TO OPPOSE UTILITY COURT APPEAL Firms Seeking Delay in Mandate Over U. 8. Funds for Power. By the Associated Press. Public Works Administration law- yers, encouraged by success in court tests of their municipal power pro- gram, said yesterday they would oppose utility company attempts to delay a mandate on cases the United States Court of Appeals recently decided in the Government's favor. The mandate originally was set for New York for 86 cents and to Chicago for $1.80. NEW MONEY ISSUE FOR RELIEF URGED Dies Declares Plan Would Pre- vent Increasing of Public Debt. A proposal to pay for next year's relief expenditures with new money, backed 100 per cent by the Nation's supply of idle silver and gold, came today from Representative Dies, Demo- crat, of Texas. g Dies sald he would offer that plan &s an amendment to the $1,500,000,000 relief appropriation bill when it comes up in the House Thursday. He contended it would: Carry the relief load without in- creasing the public debt. Balance the budget and lessen the threat.of inflation. Put to some use the gold and silver not needed for redemption of existing currency. Put cash dollars instead of credit dollars tc work. Anticipating arguments that his proposition in itself might be called inflationary, he said it would be no more so than borrowing $1,500,000,000 and issuing tax exempt bonds in that amount. By the time the bonds and accrued interest were paid off, he said, the cost would be $3,000,000,000. ] May 26, but counsel for the companies, hinting they might appeal to the Su- preme Court, have asked an extension to June 26. The cases involve injunctions the power concerns obtained to prevent payment of P. W. A. funds to Shef- fleld, Tuscumbia, Florence, Decatur, Hartselle, Russellville and Guntersville in Alabama. The companies attacked constitutionality of both the Govern- ment’s right to make loans and grants and the procedure it followed. — FUNERAL RITES TODAY FOR MISS BRAGDON District Resident Is to Be Buried in Indiana—Was D. A. R. ‘Worker. . Funeral services for Miss Anna M. Bragdon, who died Friday of a heart attack at her home, 1401 Sixteenth street, are being held this afternoon in Hysong's funeral parlors, 1300 N street. Burial will be in New Al- bany, Ind. For many years a Washington resi- dent, Miss Bragdon was long active here in the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a former his- torian of Patriots’ Memorial Chapter. She also belonged to Metropolitan Presbyterian Church. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Louise Schofleld of the Sixteenth street ad- dress, and a brother, Marshall L. Bragdon, Muskogee, Okla. (am. By 4 pm. —Star Staff Photos. Eager faces slip under the edge of the canvas looking to see what they can see. 40,000 Watch Circus City Rise at2 P.M., With 96,0 Expected in Six Performances. Never-Never Land, bound to earth) by ropes slung on 16,000 stakes, popped | into existence in Northeast Washington | yesterday, and this afternoon the men, | women and four-legged fauna who people the exotic world of the circus | will exhibit the fantastic r‘flpabil)ti(‘s‘ which admit them to & place in the rings beneath the “big top.” To see the Ringling Bros. & Bar- num & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc,, emerge from its railroad-train cocoon’ and turn into a tented city 40,000 hus- bands, wives, sons and daughters, boy friends and girl friends and unattached curious yesterday thronged the gravelly lots of the Union Market at Florida avenue and Fifth street northeast. The second-story museum of Phineas T. Barnum has grown not only into “the greatest show on earth,” but also Into first-rank big business on wheels, the wheels of 94 train cars, all parked | mnow in Eckington Yards. 96,000 Expected to Attend. But because its business is selling the magic of distant places and of sensations in artistry beyond the scope or ordinary ken of most men, Sam Gumpertz, who manages the show, expects 96,000 persons will pay their way past the main entrance to see the six performances scheduled for Wash- ington. Mr. Gumpertz may want it kept a secret, but the show begins at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. today, tomorrow and Wednesday. Baltimore next stop. The 96,000 want to hold their breath while the Great Aloys dives from the tent top, 52 feet above the sawdust, with his head in a hangman’s noose. They want to look at Dizzy Dean, | born last August in St. Louis of a ball-stomached chimpanzee named Sugar. They wonder how a tiny Bel- gian Congo elephant looks when it is | middle aged. The circus city bezan to rise at 9 the big top was| lashed into place, and Jimmy Whalen, 73, who has been boss of the business | of putting up tents and taking them | down for 50 years, rested easy. The elephants were watered, the roust- abouts were fed, the ticket window opened and the land of marvels was & going concern. Main Tent 540 Feet Long. Getting the main tent ready for ac- tion is a two-hour job. The canvas is unrolled from ifs cart and stretched on the ground. It is 540 feet long and 240 feet wide. Six center poles anchor it. Eight draft horses walk- ing around a winch hoist the canvas toward the sky. A quarter the way up twenty-seven 42-foot poles are jammed into place. The horses raise the top a few more feet and forty 38-foot poles are set in the earth for the tent to lean on. Fifty-four side Poles hold up the edge. It takes 260 “canvas men,” all working with a fury, hauling, pushing, shoving, chanting, to put this big top into place. The tent is new, although not snowy white, because it was rained on in Brooklyn. Circus men feel better after a tent has been wetted, because 00 Washingtonians the water loosens the taut threads and makes the tent more impervious | to rough weather. The menagerie | tent, next to the main top, however, | is last year's canvas, smoky-looking | after a year of exposure to the ele- | ments in 75 cities between here and British Columbia. A new menagerie | tent will be hoisted in July. Dizzy Dean is in the menagerie tent, and so, of course, are the pygmy elephants and the 44 flop-eared In- dian elephants and the camels and | the leopards and the lions and the | seals and the penguins and the other denizens of the jungle and far-off continents. So, t0o, are eight pongurs, goat-sized donkeys from Eastern India, something new this year. Two Direct Menagerie. The head men in this canvas house | of caged and tethered animals are Franz Walska, who is in charge of all the beasts, and Larry Davis, the American-born mahout, who lives and breathes for his elephants. Walska bears a fresh red scar, running across his temple into the corner of his eye. A lion reached its claws through a bar of its cage a few weeks ago and opened a gash, and a doctor sewed up Walska's temple with nine stitches. Davis’ pachyderms are less sub- Ject to pique. In fact, they enjoy the life they lead under his tutelage, and he told a story to show it. Last week in Brooklyn Davis was sleeping peacefully on the lot one 2 am. A milk man hammered on the door and shouted, “One of your ele- phants is loose. It's about 20 blocks away from here.” Davis dressed and went to count his animals. They numbered 44, as | they should. He returned to bed, but | no sooner were the blankets around | his shoulders than he heard another | knock. It was a policeman with the | came story, except that he reported | the elephant was 15 blocks Awny‘ and coming toward the circus. More Policemen Arrive. Davis counted his elephants again, and still there were 44. He thought somebody was having a gag and started once more for bed. But soon came two policemen in a squad car to make the same report, with the addition that the elephant was 10 blocks away. Davis awoke two of his helpers and had them count the ele- phants. There were 44. He had hardly reached his bunk when two other policemen in a squad car arrived with the usual story. Ine trigued by now, Davis went -out to see what was going on. Five blocks from the circus he found an old cow which once had traveled with the show, but which Ringling had sold 15 years before. “She was playing in a W. P. A. cir- cus not far from us,” Davis said. “I guess she smelled her old friends and broke loose and came in search of them.” Davis put her up for the night with her former pals and sent her back to the W. P, A. in the morning. | W.P. A HAS TAUGHT 700,000 HOW TO READ Literacy Courses Tend to Boost Wages, Says Harry Hopkins. B5 the Associated Press. Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, disclosing that his relief-roll teachers have taught 700,000 persons to read and write, claimed yesterday a double benefit for the Nation. He said literacy courses, which 5,785 teachers give to 241,048 adults in 22,779 classes, help students “per- form the duties of responsible citi- zens” and boost their wages. He estimated the number of adult “reading and writing” graduates of the Federal Relief Administration and W. P. A. the last four years at 700,000, about one-sixth of the 4,250,000 iI- literates enumerated in the 1930 census. Dr. L. R. Alderman, W. P. A. edu- cation director, estimated the annual gain at more than $100,000,000, as- suming a literate persons earns at least 50 cents per day more than the illiterate. He estimated the four-year cost of the literacy classes at $20,- 000,000. March enrollment figures showed Texas leading the States, with 18,561 adult literacy students; Pennsylvania was second, with 17,607. New York City had 17,999, with the rest of the State reporting only 1,993. Other States with enrollments above 10,000: Georgia, 11,634; Illinois, 14,052; Mississippi, 13,437; Ohio, 13,034; 44 WARSHIPS BEHIND CONSTRUCTION SLATE Date for Opening Bids on Battle- ship No. 55 June 17, In- stead of June 2. The Navy Department announced yesterday that 44 of the 67 warships now under construction are behind the time schedule set for their com- pletion. During April two vessels, the sub- marine Pollack and the 1,500-ton destroyer Shaw, were completed. While E |Boy and Girl Patrols to Meet | in 1934, as compared with an increase | | program, except for a formal welcome substantial progress was made on all other ships under construction, it did not offset previous delay. Meanwhile the date for opening bids on battleship No. 55, the first to be built in many years, has been set back from June 2 until June 17. Navy officials said the time had been extended to permit prospective bid- ders more time to complete their bids. Three private shipbuilding companies have indicated their intention to sub- mit bids. The second 35,000-ton battleship, to cost approximately $60,000,000, is to be built in & .navy yard. The yard will be designated after award of the battleship contract to the private bidder. Methodist Worker Dies. NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 17 ().— Dr. T. A. Kerley, 87-year-old retired pastor and prominent worker in the Methodist church, died yesterday. Dr. Kerley retired his pastorate at South Carolina, 13,023, and Tennes- see, 10,623, South End Church here in 1930. He was the author of several books. it The son of Georgia of Representative Peterson meets a performer. 10,000 TO ATTEND SAFETY SESSIONS Under Auspices of A. A A, Schoolboy and girl safety patrolmen, 10,000 strong from 20 States, will come to Washington for the safety demon- | stration and parade of youth Friday and Saturday under sponsorship of | | the American Automobile Association. | They represent some 250,000 boys and girls who daily safeguard 17,000,000 | classmates in 3,000 widely scattered communities. “‘Organized more than 15 years ago, when the number of motor fatalities involving children in the 5-to-14 age group was one of the most serious aspects of the traffic problem, the schoolboy safety patrols have to their credit an almost continuous downward trend in traffic deaths for this age group,” said Thomas P. Henry, De- troit, president of the A. A. A. For example, children under 15 had 200 less motor fatalities in 1935 than of 1,100 in the age groups over 15.” Official greetings, extended the pa- trol group last year by President Roosevelt on the White House lawn, will come this year from Congress. Vice President Garner, Speaker Bank- head and Senators and Representatives from the States sending patrol delega- tions will greet the visitors on the Capitol steps Friday at 4:30 pm. Loud speakers will carry the official mes- sages to the youngsters. The first day of the two-day gather- ing will be climaxed with the second annual patrol conference in the de- partmental auditorium. Patrol mem- bers will be entirely in charge of the from Henry and & round of entertain- | ment. S The sixth annual parade of the | safety sentinels will be held Saturday | at 2 p.m., with the group marching down Pennsylvania avenue. Several | hours will be required for the parade to pass the reviewing stand and along the line of march. LABOR WARNED OF GOVERNMENT Senator Bridges Cautions Work- ers and Employers to Settle Own Problems. By the Associated Press. Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire asserted last night that the States and employers and em- ployes must solve their own social and labor problems to avoid the Fed- eral Government's “hand of death.” Bridges and Representative Case, Republican, of South Dakota, who outlined Republican efforts in Con- gress in behalf of social security legis- lation, spoke on a radio program of the Republican National Committee. They were introduced by John Hamil- ton, National Committee chairman. “The greatest evil of modern times, Bridges said, “is all-powerful govern- ment. Employers and employes must adjust their differences among them- selves and inevitably the Government will step in still further to dictate to both of them.” Case said Republicans in Congress had forced the appointment of an Advisory Council to study possible fundamental changes in the social security law, which he described as now unsatisfactory. A Republican measure now before Congress, Case declared, provided for strengthening and improving the law “by eliminating the dangerous and unnecessary $47,000,000,000 reserve” roceeding on & pay-as-you-go UNITED DRYS FIGHT WEAKENING OF BAN Will Continue War on Sales Near Churches and Schools. Attacking the movement to legalize ' sale of intoxicating liquors within 400 | feet of churches and schools, the United Dry Forces of the District of Columbia last night protested “any | weakening changes in the present local liquor regulations.” | The United Drys, in their third anni- versary celebration at Metropolitan Baptist Church, adopted a resolution | which specifically objected “to the proposal to permit liquor selling estab- lishments near churches and schools.” “There is no possible excuse for this proposed invasion by the liquor traffic of the few remaining dry zones at the | Nation's Capital,” said the resolution | introduced by Capt. Edward Page | Gaston, “and only the insatiable greed of the anti-social dealers in alcoholic poison can be served by this threatened final surrender to the liquor interests.” Accuse A. B. C. Board. The resolution was forwarded to the District Commissioners. It charged that the movement to bring liquor | sales closer to churches and schools | was sponsored by the Alcoholic Bev- erage Control Board. With this action the organized drys of the city launched into another year of work, striving for a return of pro- hibition, despite the frank declaration by Representative U. S. Guyer of Kansas that' his bill to restore pro- hibition to this city had no chance of being brought up in the House. He told the gathering he would work{ ceaselessly for its passage if there | were a chance, but he said that with | Mrs. Mary Norton, chairman of the | District Committee, an “anti-prohibi- | tionist,” and Representative Palmisano | of Maryland, an avowed wet, in charge | of the measure, the District of Colum- | bia dry bill was merely “sleeping in committee.” Criticizing the drinking of alcoholic beverages by women, Guyer said, i “We've got a worse saloon in the ceuntry now than we ever had, despite the promise of the wets that the saloon would not come back.” Traffic Toll Deplored. One of the worst results of repeal, Guyer said, was the fatalities from drunken drivers and drunken pedes- trians. Dr. Everett M. Ellison, president of the United Drys, who presided, re- viewed the past three years of the organization and declared its creed to be “total abstinence for the 'indi- vidual and prohibition for the Nation and the world.” The organization is fighting for four pieces of pending legislation, he said. The Guyer bill, to restore prohibition to this city; the Capper-Culkin bill, to regulate radio advertising of liquor, and two proposed bills, one “to compel liquor dealers to take care of their victims,” and the other a measure to “curb drunken driving.” Repeal, he said, had brought dire results, among which he listed the sale of rum by the Government. Crime Records Cited. He quoted J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigatiorr as saying recently the past three years constituted the “most criminal period in the life of America.” He read from a report by the F. B. I showing that “‘more crimes were committed through- out the United States during the first quarter of this year than during the corresponding quarter of 1936.” The Virginia State Liquor Board was quoted as reporting that Virginians “poured more than $60,000,000 into legal liquor channels, while arrests for drunken driving have more than doubled since READERS’ CLUB TO MEET Election of Officers to Be Held To- morrow Night. ‘The Washington Readers’ Club will have a business meeting, the last of the season, tomorrow at 8 p.m, for election of officers, in the Alliance room of All Souls’ Unitarian Church. Mrs. Elizabeth Lina Bugbee will pre- side. Readers will be Harriet E. Bryant, Edna Sweeney, Virginia B. Blassing- ham and Augusta Wells. Helen Kin- ball and Margaret Wells will dramatize two one-act plays. Hester Walter Beall, guest artist, will give poetry in- terpretations. Thelma E. Grant, so- prano, will be accompanied by Doro- thea Adams. Cookie Givinoni will give & toe dance. Music Unit Meets Tomorrow. The music section of the 20th the State began the sale of liquor.” Mrs. Earle Wilfley announced the world convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, June 3 to 8, when representatives are ex- pected here, she said, from 31 countries. Clinton N. Howard, superintendent of the International Reform Federa- tion, predicted that “we will win the battle against the bottle when we get the church on the dry side of the fight.” Dr. John Compton Ball, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church, intro- duced Dr. Ellison, who presided. BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band in the audito- rium at 5 pm. today. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, as- sistant. Program. March, “The Free Lance” -Sousa Overture, “Springtime”______Leidzen Choral melody from “Cantata 147, Bach Ellis Scott Fox trot, “Carelessly”___ Solo for cornet, “Lullaby’ Frank Graf, soloist. Century Club will meet at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Barker Hall, Young Women's Christian Association. | resumes PAGE B—1 HOUSED. . GROUP WILL TAKE UPBILL TOBARNUISANCES Mrs. Norton Announces Plar to Call Up Measure to Restrict Plants, CHAIRMAN IS OPPOSED TO SLAUGHTER HOUSE Senzte Subcommittee Will Resume Hearings Wednesday to Hear Marylanders. Chief interest in the battle over the King-Norton bill to prohibit so- called nuisance industries in Wash- ington will shift temporarily Wednes- day from a subcommittee of the Sen- ate District Committee to the House District Committee. Although the Senate subcommittee its hearing on that day, Chairman Norton of the House com- mittee has announced she would call up the bill for consideration at the regular committee meeting Wednesday and would take a leading part in the fight to order it favorably reported and enacted into law. £ One of the immediate effects of the bill would be to prevent Adolf Gobel, Inc, of New York and Chicago from erecting a slaughter house and render- ing plant in Benning. Vigorously Opposed to Plant. “I am vigorously opposed to the erection of a slaughter house in Wash- ington,” said Mrs. Norton. “It would be a great mistake to permit such an establishment or any other nuisance industry to be located in the Nation's Capital. “I regret steps were not taken years ago to protect the beauty of Wash- ington against so-calied nuisance in- dustries. And in my opinion a slaugh- ter house is about the worst type of such industries. “Washington is not an industrial or commercial center. It is the seat of the national Government and & resi- dential city. And it also is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Its character in these respects must be preserved, and I confidently believe Congress will do it.” Mrs. Norton introduced in the House several weeks ago a companion to the King nuisance industries bill on which a subcommittee of the House District Committee already has held a series of public hearings. This measure was referred to her subcommittee for cone sideration. Support Promised. A number of members of Mrs. | Norton's committee, including Repre= sentatives McGehee of Mississippi, Bates of Massachusetts, Shafer of Michigan and Short of Missouri, have promised to support the bill. The Senate hearing next Wednesday is primarily for the purpose of ac= commodating a number of Southern Marylanders, some of Whom sell live stock in the Washington market. Their testimony probably will occupy the entire session. In arranging for their appearance, Senator Tydings of Mary= land informed the subcommittee that they wished to appear in opposition to the King bill Senator McCarran of Nevada, chair= man of the subcommittee. said yester- day he thought the hearing would probably continue for more than one day. He brought about a recess in the hearing on Friday largely because he and another subcommittee member, Senator Austin, Republican of Ver- mont, must attend Tuesday's session of the Judiciary Committee. On that day the committee is to vote on the ;xlilr]:xmmrauon's court reorganization PE— JENKINS KILLING CASE GOES TO JURY Mrs. Anna Snyder Charged With Manslaughter in Roomer's Death. The trial of Mrs. Anna M. Snyder on a charge of manslaughter in cone nection with the death last September 4 of William Jenkins, retired fireman, ‘Went to the jury in District Court at 12:05 p.m. today. Jenkins was found dead in a house in the 500 block of Tenth street southeast where he roomed. Mrs. Snyder also lived there. The District coroner said that death resulted from loss of blood from stab wounds in a leg. Both Mrs. Snyder and Miss Edna Weaver, who also roomed at the Tenth street address, were indicted on a manslaughter charge, but Trial Justice Jesse C. Adkins directed a verdict of not guilty in favor of Miss Weaver. The Government relies on circum- stantial evidence to support its case. Mrs. Snyder has married since the alleged slaying. Her name at that time was Mrs. Anna M. Sanford. PEACE HELD POSSIBLE IF WOMEN JOIN CAUSE Sisterhood of Washington Hebrew Congregation Told of Para- dox of Man. Peace would be readily attainable if the women of the world really wanted it, Miss Jane Evans, executive secre- tary of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, today told a luncheon meeting of the Sisterhood . of the Washington Hebrew Congrega= tion. Speaking on the subject, “The Su-~ preme Paradox,” Miss Evans referred to Prof. Einstein's opinion that 2 per cent of the world's population, if de- voted to the cause, could insure world peace. The women of the world could provide this 2 per cent—and more, she maintained. “Every man yearns for peace; every country arms for war,” she declared. “With some desire for peace in his heart, the ‘man in the street’ yet Waltz, “As & Dream”. March, “Land of Moa” “The Star Spangled Banner.” A seems to be moving inexorably toward new world cataclysms. This is the su- preme paradox.” \