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HOUSE D C. BODY LISTENS TO PLEAS FOR NEW LIBRARY Half Dozen City Leaders Tell Committee Need Is Acute. CROWDED, HAMPERED, CHIEF SAYS OF WORK More Branches Cannot Be Built Until Central Building Is Larger, He Asserts. Urgent need of adequate library facilities was stressed today at a hear- ing before the full House District Com- mittee on a bill providing for con- struction of a new main building for Washington's free Public Library sys- tem. More than a half dozen civic and business Jeaders, as well as trustees and officials of the library told the com- mittee how the present Main Library had outgrown its accommodations and {s unable to furnish ample and efficient service to the public. The hearing was held on a bill . sponsored by Representative Collins, Democrat, of Mississippi, who ap- peared before the committee to urge Its approval. The measure authorizes an appropriation of $2,500,000 for pur- chase of a site and construction of a new central library building. Money Lack Only Obstacle, Collins declared Washington should take the lead among the cities of the country in furnishing adequate library facilities to its residents. A new main library, he pointed out. would take some burden off the Congressional Library. “The inadequacy of funds is the only obstacle toward providing the new library,” he declared. “It is a serious situation, but not so serious that we eannot overcome it.” Collins explained that the tax bill now before the Senate District Com- mittee will raise sufficient revenue to meet the ordinary and certain cul- tural needs of the city, and expressed the belief that the Government would lend the District sufficient funds with- out interest to erect buildings it sorely needed. He mentioned specifically a| new jail, additional schools and build- ings in the Municipal Center area for use of the municipal government. “But,” he declared, “above all, need a new library building.” Crowding Is Emphasized. Dr. George F. Bowerman, chief librarian of the Public Library, de- scribed the growth of the library and declared, “We are crowded beyond de- scription and hampered in our work.” He said the library should have more space for its readers and ex- plained there are now 10 branch libraries in service and a demand for more, but conditions had reached such 8 point the library cannot have more branches until it has larger central quarters. “We need in the main library,” he declared, “a large reservoir to supple- ment the service of the branches.” Dr. Bowerman also presented to the committee a copy of a report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library to former Chairman Norton, which showed that the trustees last April unanimously approved the bill and had recommended a number of amendments. These amendments were approved by Collins. ‘Would Be Eligible to P. W. A. One of the principal amendments would make the new building eligible a5 a Public Works Administration project by including the purchase of a site and construction of the building within the provisions of the act authorizing the Commissioners to ob- tain by grant and loan, up to $10,- 750,000, for municipal projects. Only $6,375,000 has been loaned to the District up to this time. Another important change pro- posed by the library trustees was to qualify the authorization of a $2.- 500,000 site and building fund by the words “or 50 much thereof as may be necessary” and to specify that the funds authorized for appropriation ‘would come out of the revenues of the District “and the Treasury of the United States” The change in language would remove any complica- tions in connection with the proposal of financing the building, or a part of it, out of P. W. A. funds, and of a possible finding that not so much as the total appropriation would be necessary to erect and equip the new building. Martin A. Roberts, assistant libra- tian of the Library of Congress, testi- fled that a new central Public Library would greatly relieve the Congressiona] snd enable it to increase its efficiency. Amendments Suggested. Nathan C. Wyeth, municipal archi- tect, discussed library building costs, and Thomas 8. Settle, secretary of the WNational Capital Park and Planning Commission, suggested several addi- tional amendments which Dr. Bower- man approved. One would remove a stipulation in the original bill that the new library be located “west of Sixteenth street vorthwest and north of Pennsylvania Avenue” and merely provide that it be rected in the Northwest section. The pther would authorize the Park and Planning Commission to confer with the Commissioners over the selection of a site. Jesse C. Suter presented for B. M. McKelway, chairman of the Public Library Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, a statement urging approval of the bill. The Library Committee, the state- ment pointed out, recognizes the need for the early erection of a new main building “as one of immediate emer- gency because the present demands | on the library system have grown far beyond the facilities sfforded by the present building.” “While there is an insistent de- mand and well undersiood agitation from the various neighborhoods for the provision of additional branches,” the statement declared, “any further m.m:hexpnnlionhspctohetm- \practical until substantial expansion 0f the central library facilities.” “Marriage bonuses to postal employes in England totaled $050,000 last year. we he Fp WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION celebration of Independence da held last night, and a groug turned out is shown in the a Deterred by rain on the Fourth, the community of school children who ove photograph. vy at Takoma Rark was WEDNESDAY, Free lemonade was distributed to the marchers and spec- tators, and a number of those who quenched their thirst are seen crowding around the overworked attendants of the re- freshment booth. ening Stap JULY 7, 1937. NEEDY AGED PAY 2,600 Get Aid Despite Act Being Delayed. Subsistence payments for Washing- ton's 2,600 persons on the old-age as- sistance program—help up since July 1 because of delay in passage of the District'’s 1938 appropriation act— morrow under special arrangements made today at the District Building. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, announced at noon that all | the checks were ready and would be distributed as soon as authority was forthcoming from the Treasury and the controller general's office. When the plight of the 2,600 needy aged became known, District officials sought means of slashing red tape in order to prevent any further priva- tions for those dependent on the monthly checks. A large majority of the 2,600 cases formerly were on relief, payable by the District Government. When they were found eligible for the old-age assistance program, they were trans- ferred to that phase of the social security program. Had the District appropriation act for the new fiscal year been passed by Congress and signed by the President under normal procedure, the funds would have been available before July 1, and there would have been no delay in the drawing of the checks. The District's financial crisis de- layed passage of the supply bill in the first place, and it was also delayed by controversy over what new tax measures should be adopted to meet the 1938 deficit which is imposed by the appropriations for the new year. While the average old-age benefit check amounts to only $25 a month, District officials said they were witH- out authority to make any advance to their old-age clients, even though the District passed, since it was required that all such checks pass through a regu- lar routine. THOMAS P. CARROLL RITES TO BE FRIDAY Clothing Store Manager Had Lived in Washington All His Life. ‘Thomas P. Carroll, 63, manager of the Young Men's Shop at 1319 F street, died yesterday at his home, 4510 Fifteenth street, after a prolonged {llness. Born and : reared in the Dis- trict, Mr. Car- roll had lived here all his life. He was educated the public ) an active mem- ber of Sacred Heart Church, Sixteenth and Park road. Be- side his widow, Mrs. Margaret M. Carroll, Mr. Carroll leaves two sisters, Mrs. W. S. Spencer of Washington and Mrs. B. F. Tinnan of Baltimore. Funeral services will be held at the T. P. Carroll. home Friday at 9:30 a.m., after which high mass will be held at Sacred Heart Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. — U WILLARD HOTEL PLANS $500,000 RENOVATION Rooms to Be Remodeled, Refur- nished, Air Conditioning to Be Installed. Complete modernization of the Willard Hotel, at an estimated cost of $500,000, was announced today by | Manager Harry P. Somerville on bE- half of the owners. The announcement, Somerville said, was “a direct refutation” of rumors that the famous hotel was to be made over into an office building or to be sold to the Government. It is planned that rooms will be re- modeled and refurnished and all rooms not already air cooled will be conditioned as such, fast self-leveling elevators will be installed and new bath rooms will be instalied. “Pea- cock Alley,” the coffee shop and the main lobbes will be modernized also, A CHECKS ARE READY Slash in Red Tape to Let were to be sent out late today or to- | supply bill had been | FORESTERS' GROUP Transfer to Interior Is Held Threatened Under New Bill. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. | Protests that the- transfer of the | ‘Fores& Service from the Department. | of Agriculture to the Interior Depart- | ‘mem is threatened under the new | made individually to each member of | Congress by the Society of American Foresters. In spite of the fact that administra- | | tion spokesmen have announced the plan was abandoned under the new Robinson bill, H. H. Chapman, presi- | dent of the society, insists there are “definite indications” that this move is intended. He points out that in the printed version of the new bill on June 23, the l:lluse exempting the Forest | | Service “was deliberately omitted,” and the bill now reads: “Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to authorize the President— (5) to abolish or transfer to any other agency any of the functions exercised by the Engineer Corps of the Army or the Mississippi River Commission in administering any laws relating to rivers and harbors or flood control.” ‘The proposal to transfer the Forest Service caused a Nation-wide protest that brought Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary of Interior Ickes into sharp conflict—so much so, in fact, that it was announced from official sources that forestry would be left undisturbed. Now, however, it is ;pomwd out there has again been a certain testimony at public hearings on June 4. Rufus Poole, solicitor for the Interior Department, proposed the following amendment: “The Forest Service and all the functions thereof, together with its personnel. records, files, supplies, office furniture, equipment and property of every kind, unexpended balances of appropriations and all allotments in the District of Columbia or elsewhere | are transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior, and ali duties, power and authority now vested by law in the Secretary of Agriculture, performed, executed or exercised by him, through or in the administration of the Forest Service, are transferred to the Secre- tary of the Interior.” He told the committee that he be- lieved this amendment “would be in | furtherance and not in derogation of the President's reorganization recom- mendations.” SLAYING PROBERS TRACE SHIRT MARK Aid of New York Laundries Is Sought in Fatal Shooting of Grocer. Deteokives sought to trace a laun- dry mark in New York today in the hurft for the killer of Max Dichter, grocer who was fatally wounded in battling bandits during an attempted hold-up in his store at 120 L street on June 22. The two hold-up men fled after shooting Dichter. Police found a shirt on the sidewalk, apparently dropped there by one of the fleeing bandits. The shirt bore a New York label and & laundry mark which none of the local laundries could identify. Inspector Berhard W. Thompeon wrote New York police yesterday, en- listing their aid in attempting to trace the laundry mark there. He said if the New York quest produced results, there to try to trace the shirt owner. & coroner’s jury returned a verdict of murder in Dichter's death. He died Saturday night at Sibley Hospital. INGUISTIC experts of the Bu- reau of Ethnology of the Smith- sonian Institution prepared today to try to decipher a re- cording in foreign tongues of “spirit messages” ' purportedly received by. & British medium. A 30-minute record of the supposed messages from Indian, Chinese and Italian spirits was to be made at Lily Dale, N. Y., today and sent to the bureau for a check to discover whether the “messages” are delivered in au- thentic foreign languages, according to an Associated Press. PROTESTS CHANGE Senate reorganization bill are being, change of heart, and the reasons Iort this change may be tied in closely to | a Washington detective would be sent | authorities, it was said, have advised ‘Two colored men arrested here as| removed, since this organ is believed suspects in the case were released as | to be the customary seat of infection A shattering explosion near a rail- road track near Arlington Cemetery yesterday sent the thoughts of 20 Boy Scouts back to a March day when ;another blast cost the lives of 25 of their fellows and 300 other children. | ; ‘The Scouts were from Texas coun- ties near the scene of the Longview School tragedy at New London. In | the group was Scoutmaster Bill Mote, who lost two children in the school: | house explosion, a 14-year-old son who | lacked two badges of benig an eagle | Scout and an 11-year-old daughter. | | The blast they watched from the railroad track on the grounds of the Arlington Experimental Farm was made to order by engineers of the | Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the Agriculture Department, who mix in- | ilammable dust with aiz, ignite the mixture and produce a booming reac- tion which hurls glass window panes for 60 feet. Seek to Learn Causes. “We make these explosion experi- ments in order to learn how they can be avoided and how they can be con- trolled,” explained Dr, David J. Price, principal engineer in charge of the Chemical Engineering Research Divi- slon of the bureau. He conducted the Federal investigation into the causes of the New London tragedy. Behind Mote on the track stood | Scout Ira Joe Moore, who was blown | through a window when the gas in the | cellar of the school was ignited, and | his friend, Welling Watson, another | Pupils Injured in New Lon(lml Catastro- phe Watch Experiments Seeking Rem- edy for Accidental Explosions. New Londoner who was safe in an- other part of the school building when the explosion occurred With them was Frank Garnett. Scoutrhaster at Troop. Tex., who aided in the rescue work in the debris in which were pinned the bodies of 25 Boy Scouts. Participants also in the rescue were the Scouts on the train from Smith, Cherokee, Rusk, Gregg and Upshur Counties. For the benefit of the Texans and 20 New York Scouts who happened to be on the scene, Explosion Engineers R. L. Hanson and H. H. Brown con- ducted five different blast experiments. | Grain Dust Exploded. They exploded grain dust in a 20- foot tower with a vent, and then ex- ploded it without a vent so that the glass windows of the tower were blown across the railroad track many yards | up from where the Scouts stood. Hanson exploded aluminum powder | in a miniature grain elevator, blow- ing the cardboard top of the elevator | several yards. Then, to the ringing of an old farm bell starch dust in the 20-foot tower, sending glass and flame for many feet. As a finale, Hanson exploded dried beef blood which he shook from a cheese cloth bag on a flame. During | the intermissions Price talked of ex- | plosions and showed the Scouts two books he found in the school house— a blood-soaked chemistry book opened to a page on glass explosions and the manual training notebook of a boy killed in the blast. |SHOOTING INQUIRY ENDS AS WIFE IS RELEASED Husband, Wounded in Both Legs, Reported in Satisfactory Con- dition in Hospital. Investigation of the shooting of Ramon Candano, 48, who was wounded in both legs last night in his garage in the 2500 block of G street, ended today when the District attorney's office ordered the release of his wife, Della, 42, from the Woman's Bureau. Candano insisted he shot him- self accidentally while cleaning his | .32-caliber revolver, police reported. | He is in Emergency Hospital, where physicians said his condition is satis- factory. His wife was treated at the hospital for bruises before she was taken to the Woman’s Bureau. ‘The Candanos live at 3025 O street, where Mrs. Candano maintains an office for the practice of osteopathy. DR. O’KEEFFE IS NAMED TO FIRE, POLICE BOARD Will Give 80 Per Cent of Full Time Service to Members of Departments. Dr. James A. O'Keeffe, 4501 Thir- teenth street, today was appointed by the Commissioners to be a member of the Board of Police and Fire Surgeons. Dr. O'Keeffe will succed Dr. Vir- ginius Dabney, whose resignation was ‘ announced by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. He will take office Sep- tember 1. His salary will be $3,040 a year for devoting 80 per cent of full time service for medical work for members of the police and fire depart- ' | ments. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia Medical School and has been engaged in medical practice here for 13 years. He had the indorsement of Senator Byrd of Virginia, Repre- sentative Smith of Virginia, Repre- sentative Duncan of Missouri and a number of Washington physicians. District medical authorities today declared danger of an epidemic of typhoid fever had been ended by the identification of & cook in a Prince Georges County road house as a “car- rier” who is believed to have passed the disease unwittingly to more than 10 persons, one of whom died. Seven District residents are being treated for the disease in hospitals here and three others are under care in the county. The patient who died was C. P. Cool, 3314 Fifth street southeast. He died at Providence Hospital last Saturday. The cook, whose name was with- held, quit his job when informed he was a carrier of the disease. Medical that he should have his gall bladder in the case of “carriers.” ‘When succeeding cases of typhoid were reported, beginning two weeks News, weekly newspaper in the N‘ew York spiritualist Summer camp, was quoted as saying: “The medium, Horace 8. Hambling of London, speaks no Indian, Chinese or Italian except a phrase or two. The record, however, will begin with 10 minutes of conversation in Indian, from the Indian spirit, Moon Trail. ‘This will be followed by 10 minutes in Chinese from the spirit of Ruan Fu, and 10 minutes in Italian from the spirit of “Tony.’ ” The ipiritualist leaders elaim that these spirits control the vocal cords of the wm Hambling, whose voloe | nizsed Danger of Typhoid Epidemic ‘Removed as Carrier Is Found ago, & co-operative investigation was started by Dr. James G. Cumming, assistant District health officer, and Dr. A. B. Hooton, University Park, Md,, the Prince Georges County health officer. Tracing the history of each known patienty it was found by the health of- ficials each one had been a customer at the road house. Drs. Cumming and Hooton went to the road house and persuaded all persons there who han- dled food or served drinks to patrons to submit to examination. Laboratory experiments, they reported, revealed that the cook, while not ill, was a “carrier” of the disease. The investigation has not been com- pleted, Dr. Cumming said. It was be- lieved possible three or four more cases of the disease might be attributable to the “carrier.” Since January 1 there have been 26 cases and 4 deaths from typhoid in the District, Dr. Cumming said. 'Spirit Messages' Sent to Smithsonian was to be recorded for the Bureau of Ethnology examination. Officials at the bureau had not heard ®of the project today, but said linguistic experts will be assigned to listen to the record and see what they can make of it when it arrives. One official recalled & similar record was checked for a phychical research institute of London. It was sup- posed to be a message from an In- dian spirit. The bureau’s experts in Indisn languages listened to it with- out being informed what it was :up- pn.d %0 be, and none of them any of the sounds. They e- - he exploded | Man-Made Blasts Invoke Vision o M B neke Vision (ENERS ST ' MEETING CALLED ‘Deadlock Appears to Be at End—Conciliatory Tone * to Mark Parley. ‘The deadlock which has prevented | settlement of the two-week-old dry- | cleaning strike appeared to be broken today as representatives of employers and employes prepared to meet at the Ambassador Hotel, with both sides in- dicating a willingness to make conces- sions. The strike, affecting 13 wholesaie dry-cleaning plants, was called June 25 by Local 187, Laundry Workers, Cleaners and Dyers’ Union, in an ef- fort to secure an $18 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour week, time and a half | for overtime and union recognition for | its members. | A plant owners’ committee coun- tered with an offer of a $15 minimum wage and a 48-hour week, which was rejected by the union. Last night rep- resentatives of both sides met with | Association, whose members have threatened to establish co-operative ‘clenning plants unless the strike was settled. ‘The plant owners, it was learned, of- | fered to establish an $18 minimum| | wage for certain skilled workers, with a sliding scale for unskilled workers. | Samuel Rubenstein, spokesman for th- 13 plants affected by the strike, said, ! | after the meeting, that prospects of a | | settlement seemed hope{ul “We are | making progress now,” he added. Rubenstein warned union officials, | however, that negotiations will be | broken off unless pickets cease threat- ening workers in the struck plants. Two of his employes, who refused to join the strike, were beaten yesterday, Rubenstein said, and | ing. ““We are anxious to do everything in our power to settle this strike through peaceful negotiations,” Rubenstein said, “but this cannot be done if the plant owners are required to remain at their establishments to protect \heir employes from intimidation.” PIRACY IS CHARGED TO FILM COMPANY Writer Claims $1,000,000 Value for Manuscript Returned to Him. Charging that the movie “The Roard to Glory” was based on a play he wrote and that his composition was “pirated” by the Twentieth Cen‘ury Fox Film Corp., Robert H. Sheets of Jackson, Tenn., asked District Court today to compel the concern to ac- count for profits and cease exhibiting the film. He valued his manuscript at $1,000,000. ‘Through Attorneys Horace L. Lohnes and H. L. McCormick, he said he wrote a play entitled, “The Road to Glory,” and in February, 1935, sub- mitted it to Twentieth Century Fox. In due time, it was returned with the advice that it could not be used, he continued. Then, on November 15, 1936, he said, he learned for the first | time that the film company had pro- duced a picture called “The Road to Glory.” Hastening to see it, he found that it “embodied in substance” his own play, he asserted. Twentieth Century, he said, was guilty of “pirat- ing the plaintifi's words, scenes, ar- rangements, dialogue and ideas * * *.” Although he pointed out a number of alleged similarities, he said it would be necessary for the court to view the film to make an accurate comparison of it with his manuscript. Not only was his play taken without his consent, but it was changed as to constitute “a false, absurd and per- verted presentation of the thoughts, ideas and meanings, which the plain- tiff intended to convey,” thereby humiliating him among his !mnds. he told the court, for Study’ cided it was “gibberish.” It would help in checking the record from Lily Dale, if Medium Hambling could give the Ethnology Bureau's experts an idea of what specific In- dian language the spirit Moon Trail uses, they said. There are more than 50 “linguistic families” or stocks of Indian languages, all with numerous dislects, it was pointed out, and no one expert hardly could be familiar with all of them. However, several men attached to the bureau are famil- tongues. 4 representatives of the Retail Tallors'| Many Boy Scouts iook part in the celebration, which attracted one of the largest throngs in the history of the fete. who participated are pictured here. Some of the Scouts —Star Staff Photos. NEW GRAND JURY FORD. C. SWORN 19 Men and 4 Women to Serve Until First Tues- day in October. A new grand jury was sworn in this | morning by Justice Daniel W. O'Dono- ghue of District Court, to serve until the first Tuesday in October. composed of was Eugene B. English, 37. 5863 Chase Che parkw auditor of loca tor Co. With the gambling the last way, the E. B. English mer months. Besides the foreman, | jurors are: the pickets | threatened other workers this morn- | Mrs. Harriett M. Baden, 33, 2743 housewife; | Clarence J. Branner, 35, 315 Evarts purchasing agent; Charles D. Carroll, 33, 2320 Twentieth | | street, broker; Frank S. Coleman, 56, bar- Louis J. Fosse, 54, 5916 Six- teenth street; William L. Gaghan, 37, 1921 First street, floor manager, Gold- enberg Co.: Ralph H. Gauker, 37, 4441 P street, assistant city ticket agent; Girouard, 53, 4427 Third | street, salesman; William S. Hartman, 55, 1712 T street southeast, real estate; ames B. Henderson, jr., 36, 2941 New- ark street, merchant; Mrs. Grace D. Hobbs, 54, 3819 Seventh street, house- Fourth street northeast, | street mnortheast, | 1811 Lawrence street northeast, tender; Charles E. wife; Mrs. Louise S. Hoskinson, 42, 3934 Military road, housewife; Charles | D. Jewell, 43, of 4435 Greenwich park- [ way, salesman; Frank B. Lord, 63, of | 2031 Park road, correspondent; Mrs. Ninoth M. Nussbaum, 49, of 935 Ken- nedy street, housewife; John M. Rid- dell, 63, of 1108 E street northeast; Benjamin Sebol, 37, of 503 Powhatan place, clerk: Francis A. Simmons, 50, Robert L. Twynham, 34, of 640 Gallatin street, clerk; Joseph D. West, 43, of 1519 of 3715 T street, builder: Gales street northeast, clerk: Carrol J. Hansucker, 41, nue, claim examiner. BAND CONCERTS. By the Marine Band at the Capitol Capt. Taylor William F. Santel- at 7:30 o'closk tonight. Branson, leader; mann, assistant. am. Marines' hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma.” March, “Boy Scouts of America,” Sousa Overture, “Youth Triumphant,” Hadley Bellstedt Cornet solo, “Napoli” ‘Winfred Kemp. “Prelude” to the third act of. “Lohengrin” . “Rhumba,” from “Second Sym- phony” __ Military band arrangement by Albert Bennert. Clarinet solo, “Prelude et Rigaudon,” Avon Clyde Hall. Excerpts from “The Serenade,” Herbert -Volistedt -Borodin Waltz, “Jolly Fellows” Overture, “Prince Igor’ “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Navy Band in the bandstand at the Navy Yard at 7:30 o'clock to- Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; night. Alexander Morris, assistant. am. Overture, Solo for cornet, “Hungarian Melo- Qleafte At S Oscar Short. Grand scenes from the opera, “The Bohemian Girl” “Taccata and Fugue" “Bacchanale,” from Delilah” .. “Memories of Franz Lehar,” -Bach “Samson and Arranged by Hall | Xylophone duet, “The Two Dons,” Alford L. Goucher and S. Perrone. Waltz, “Beautiful Blue Danube,” Strauss Tone poem, “Universal Judgment,” De Nardis ‘The National Anthem. e More Money for M. Ps. Balaries of the members of the mnm-mmdmmmmmhm- It was | place 19 i Oglethorpe street, men and 4 wom- | en. The foreman | the| . Caterpillar Trac- 35 indict- ments reported by | grand jury out of the new panel is expected to handle mostly routine business during the hot Sum- the grand | of 3833 T street, Government rate clerk, and Murray | M. Harllee, 34, of 3206 Wisconsin ave- Wagner MacDonald Lo . “Roman Carnival,” Berlioz Patrol, “The U. 8. Navy,” Lieut. Benter ----Bach Balfe Saint-Saens PAGE B—1 FUND OF SGA000 ¢ AWARDED TOPAVE 49 NEW STREETS Commissioners Approve Or- der for Part of Year’s Highway Program. WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE ON MANY OF THE JOBS Others to Be Held Over Until Spring—Contracts Have Been Let on Some. Forty-nine new streets in the Dise trict will be paved at a cost of $640,200 under an order approved today by the Commissioners. It is only part of the highway program for the new fiscal year for which provision was made in the 1938 District appropriae tion act. Work will be started promptly on many of the new streets, but a por= tion of .this program will be held over for the Spring working season, it was announced by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways. Contracts already have been let cove ering some of the work. This list of new paving includes those projects specifically designed in the supply act. The following are Northwest section: New Hampshire avenue, Buchanan street to North Capitol street, $36.000; Hamilton street, New Hampshire to | Kansas avenues, $20,500: Second street, New Hampshire avenue to Hamilton street, $11,300; Farragut street, New Hampshire avenue to First street, $4,500; First street, Cone cord avenue to Longfellow street, $10,500; Powhatan place, Fifth to Seventh streets, $9.100: Sixth street, Tuckerman to Van Buren streets, $8,200; Seventh street, Tewkesbury to Whittier street, $17,300; Seventh to Eighth streets, $6.800; Gallatin street, Geor= gia avenue to Ninth street, $7,500; | Western avenue, Rittenhouse street to Broad Branch road. $24,200, and Elder street, Seventh to Eighth 1| streets, $6,000 Crittenden street, New Hampshire | avenue to Fourth street, $5.300; Third | place, Crittenden street to Decatur | street, $4.600; Decatur street, New | Hampshire avenue to Fourth street, $9.000; Fourth street, Decatur street to Emerson street, $6,800; Delafield place, Third street to Fourth street, $6,800; Third street, New Hampshire avenue to Emerson street, $10,500; Third street, Farragut street to Kan- sas avenue, $28500: Gallatin street, Third street to Fourth street, $7,500. In the Northeast section the follow- | ing streets are listed for new paving: Seventeenth street, C street to E street, $12,000; D street, Seventeenth street to Eighteenth street, $9,000; Eighteenth street, C street to D street, $7,500; E street, Sixteenth street to Seventeenth street, $4,800: Holbrook street, Morse street to Neal street, $6,100; Seventeenth place, K street to L street. $5.400: Seventeenth street, K street to M street, $15,000; Lang street, Seventeenth street eastward, | $3.000; Lyman street, Seventeenth street eastward. $2.600; R street, Bla= densburg road eastward, $10,500; Evarts street, Twenty-second street to Twenty-fourth street, $8.300; Nine« teenth street, South Dakota avenue to Bunker' Hill road, $14,000; Randolph street, Eighteenth street to Twentieth street, $16,500; South Dakota avenue, Eighteenth street to Nineteenth street, $21,900; South Dakota avenue, Four= teenth street southward, $14.000; Thirteenth place, Taylor street to Michigan avenue, $5,300: Taylor street, Michigan avenue to Fourteenth street, $10.000: Fenwick street, New York avenue to West Virginia avenue, $18,000; and Franklin street, Michi~ gan avenue to Lincoln road, $16.500. | In the Southeast section, the fol- 1 | lowing streets are listed: Branch avenue, Alabama avenue to Denver street, $26.000: Minnesota ave= nue, Pennsylvania avenue to Twenty- seventh street, $10.000: Denver street, Branch avenue to Thirty-fourth street, $15,000; Sixteenth street, Ridge place to Q street, $10.500; Nineteenth street, Minnesota avenue to P street, $10,500; R street, Sixteenth street to Seven= teenth street, $8,300: Q street, Six- teenth street to Seventeenth street, $8.300; Q street. Nineteenth street to Minnesota avenue, $3,800; P street, Eighteenth place to Nineteenth street, $4.500; Eighteenth place, Falrlawn avenue to P street, $7,500. TUG RESCUES FOUR IN SINKING BOAT Bureau of Engraving Clubmen Manage to Save Cruiser After Hitting Log. The Government tug Tyndall res- cued four members of the Rod and Gun Club of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as their 32-foet cruiser was sinking after striking a submerged log in the Potomac River near Alex- andria today. ‘Those rescued were Homer Trusty, 908 C street southwest, freight fore- man at the bureau and president of the club; John M. Smith, 1417 Newton street northwest, superintendent of the stamp department; James E. Eck- loff, 4925 Butterworth place, a fore- man, and Edward Beach, 2434 Monroe street, plate printer. The four men had started to take the cruiser Greenback, bought last Winter by members of the club, to a fishing camp near Rock Point, Md., where they planned to leave it for the Summer. Eckloff said the boat struck a sub- merged log soon after they got under way, sprung a bad leak and started sinking rapidly. Fortunately the Tyn- dall, en route to Occoquan with barges of brick, was nearby. The tug stopped and the Greenback limped to its side, where members of the tugboat crew made it fast. The damaged boat was towed to the shore and beached near the outskirts of Lower Alexandria. “We were lucky,” Eckloff said. “T didn’t even get my feet wet. We sal- vaged some of our supplies, but lost considerable stuff. We don't know yet how badly the boat s damaged.” those in the | h »