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A_14 ¥ BILL AUTHORIZING D.C. BORROWINGAS STOPGAP PLANNED Kennedy Ready to Act if| Court Situation Blocks Taxes. HAZEN MAY REQUEST WHITE HOUSE ACTION Passage of Separate Measure to Tide District Over Is Problematical. Government BY J. A. O'LEARY. A move to let the District borrow temporarily from the Treasury to avoid its approaching financial difficulties probably will get under way in Con- gress next week if the local tax bill remains sidetracked by the Supreme Court fight in the Senate. Chairman Kennedy of the House subcommittee that drafted the tax bill said last night if the Senate situa- tion remains unchanged by Monday, he would introduce in the House a separate bill containing only the au- thority for the Treasury to advance necessary funds to meet the city's operating expenses until local taxes are collected. He made the announcement after eonferring with Chairman King of the Senate District Committee re- garding the predicament that may confront the municipal government sfter this month. Realty Rate Unsettled. A major portion of the District’s an- | nual revenue is derived from property | taxes, which begin to come in during | September. But the question of what | rate is to be applied to real estate and tangible personal property this year is one of the unsettled issues in | the pending tax bill. | Although the Commissioners indi- | eated yvesterday they would prefer to press for early passage of the tax bill, | rather than seek a separate prelimi- | nary borrowing resolution, the pros- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1937. Departing Scouts Look Back on Days of Rain, Heat and Lots of Fun Max Walden, John Kaiser, Ronald Bishop and Donald Catrell, all of Flint, Mich., are finishing their packing. pect of having the tax measure taken | up in the Senate immediately still; looked hopeless last night because of the tightly drawn battle line between supporters and opponents of the Su- preme Court bill. This was forcefully demonstrated late yesterday when Senator Copeland, | Democrat, of New York, met with | delay in getting action on the con- ference report on the non-military part of the War Department appro- priation bill. Bill Includes Borrowing Proviso. The proposal to let the Treasury | advance funds to the District pend- ing tax collections is a part of the pending revenue measure, having been included by the Senate committee be- cause of the fact that even if the bill could be enacted into law imme- diately, the city probably would use | up its available money before the new | revenue began to flow in. | If the House passes a separate bill next week confined to the borrowing clause, it still might prove difficult for District Committee members to have that limited measure considered im- mediately in the Senate, not because of any opposition to the merits of the proposal, but because strict enforce- ment of parliamentary rules has marked the court battle during the past few days Observers at the Capitol believe however, there would be more chance of obtaining consideration of the sim- | ple borrowing provision by unanimous consent than there will be of getting the entire tax bill up until there is a | break of some kind in the court fight. | May Seek White House Aid. H Commissioner Hazen said late yes- terday that if the tax bill is still tied up by August 1 he would seek the aid of the White House. Commissioner Allen has been at the | Capitol during the past two days con- ferring with Senate committee mem- bers to emphasize the necessity for ac- tion. Senate Majority Leader Robin- son has made it clear, however, the| tax bill cannot be taken up at this stage of the court fight. The District needs $7.000,000 of new revenue to balance its current budget, and if Congress should fml‘ to pass the pending legislation to raise | it from various sources the Commis- sioners would have no alternative but to place the entire additional burden on real estate by raising the property tax rate, despite the fact that that| source already bears a major part of | the city's present revenue load. SESSION TO WEIGH NEGRO LEGISLATION 2 Units of Washington Elks Meet Today to Consider Measures. Pending legislation affecting the place of the colored people in America was to be discussed at a conference sponsored by the departments of edu- cation and civil liberties of the Wash- ington Elks at 2 p.m. today. The conference of two sessions will be held at the Howard Theater. The second session will begin at 8:30 p.m. Questions to be discussed include pro- cedure to secure passage of the anti- lynching bill, the Harrison-Black- Fletcher scnool bill as amended to safeguard the interests of colored school children and clarification of the Black-Connery wage-hour bill to assure inclusion of colored workers in its benefits. Other matters to be discussed are organization against discrimination, segregation and Jim Crowism every- where, and particularly in the Capi- tal; organization of a Nation-wide drive against disenfranchisement and the formulation of memorials to all in authority with obviation of all these situations in view. The eleventh annual Elks’ regional oratorical contest wil be held at the Howard tomorrow. Youths from sev- eral States will speak. o Geniuses Tell of Love. Genius in love: “The air I breathe n a room empty of you is unhealthy,” wrote Keats to his sweetheart. Burns, in the account of his first love says: “I don't know myself why the tones of her voice made my heartstrings thrill like an Aeolian harp, and par- ticularly why My pulse beat such a furious rattan When I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle and thistles.” Lt CHARLES CALDERHEAD. TIZENS OPPOSE NEW REALTY LEVY, Randall Highlands, 16th | Street Heights, Southeast Units Against. Opposition to the proposed xfiueased 1 real estate tax for the District, pend- ing in Congress, has been expressed by two local citizens’ associations in special meetings, officials announced today. A third organization, the Southeast Citizens' Association, although ad- journed for the Summer, opposed such a tax for the District through its Executive Committee, William A. Maio, president, announced. The Sixteenth Street Heights Citi- zens called the proposed tax ‘“in- equitable and unfair” to property owners here. The present tax is uni- form and should be continued, they said, A copy of this expression against the measure was ordered sent to Chair- man King of the Senate District Com- mittee, James I. Turner, secretary, said. The group met at the home of the president, Samuel Loveless, 7510 Alaska avenue, Thursday evening. The Randle Highlands Citizens’ As- sociation also opposed the tax at a meeting Wednesday night, Mrs. Elea- nor Lynham, secretary, said. In addition, opposition was expressed to the deletion from the 1938 District appropriation bill of an item to begin construction of a new Pennsylvania avenue southeast bridge. It was held the present span is dangerous and inadequate. A traffic jam exists “at least three nights” each week, mem- bers declared. The next meeting of the association will be held August 10 at 2407 Min- nesota avenue southeast. FIVE ARRESTED IN RAID ARE RELEASED ON BOND Four Men and Woman Free Pend- ing Hearing Wednesday on Gambling Charges. Four men and a woman are out on $1,500 bond apiece todsy pending a hearing Wednesday following their arrest yesterday on gambling charges in a restaurant in the 400 block of Eleventh street southwest. ‘Detective Lieut. Floyd Truscott, leader of the drive on Washington gambling establishments started two months ago, said today this was one of a few clean-up raids aimed to complete the Metropolitan Police De- partment’s war on gaming. Three of the men arrested yester- day were charged with operating a lottery. They gave their names as James William Gobbett, 48, of the 400 block of Tenth street southwest; James 8. Jawish, 47, and Joseph Ead, 42, of the 4500 block of Georgia ave- nue. Bradford R. Glasscock, 37, of the 200 block of Twelfth strest south- west and Mae Jane Aubrey, 23 of the 1000 block of Twenty-fourth street were charged with setting up a gam- ing table. Detective Joseph Comiskey of the fourth precinct, who led the raid, said a quantity of “humbers” slips were seized. G. A. R.’s Former Head Dies. PHILADELPHIA, July 10 (#).—Col. Samuel P. Town, a past national com- mander of the Grand Army of the Republie, died today. He was 91. He enlisted in the Union Army at 18 and served in the Shenandoah Val- ley campaigns under Gens. Sheridan, Hunter and Si.ei. ]URY wu_l_ PRUBE %Jamboree Over, Scouts Go Home IR e v Memones ot dip Approximately Half of 27,000 Already | Have Left—12,000 Scheduled to Youth Hit in Head by Shot From Gun His Friend Was Examining. A coroner’s jury today was to in- vestigate the death of Charles W. Calderhead, 22, employe of a filling station at Thirteenth and K streets, who was fatally wounded last night by a bullet which police said was ac- cidentally discharged from a gun in the hands of Howard L. Melton, a friend of the dead youth. According to the police report, Mel- ton picked up a .22-caliber rifle in a cloth case from the runningboard of a car in back of the station and, in handling the weapon, accidentally discharged it, sending a bullet through the back of Calderhead's skull. He died in Emergency Hospital an hour later. Melton, 21, also an employe of the station, was released in the oustody of his attorney, pending an inquest at 11:30 am. Calderhead's mother, Mrs. Mary Calderhead, said her son had lived in Washington about five years and that he and Melton were ‘“good friends.” Calderhead lived with his mother at 1831 California street. Melton lives at 804 Garfield street, Bethesda, Md. gern Bl e HAZEN BACKS PLAN TO CURB GAS SALE Regulation Barring Purchase by | Drunken Motorists Will Be Sought. Sale of gasoline to drunken motor- ists would be forbidden under an amendment to the police regulations, to be laid before the Commissioners for action in the near future. The plan is a proposed new weapon against the drunken driver. It was suggested by Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer and indorsed by Com- missioner Hazen, who predicted it would be adopted by the Board of Commissioners. Promise of co-operation by the mo- tor fuel industry was given to Hazen | late yesterday by spokesmen for a number of the larger gasoline whole- salers. They said signs would be posted at retail filling stations stating the attendants were forbidden to sell to any one who was visibly under the influence of liquor. Following the conference, Hazen di- rected Vernon E. West, principal as- sistant corporation counsel, to pre- pare an amendment to the regulations | to cover the plan. Hazen said West was convinced the regulation would stand a court test. LOCAL SUFFRAGE MEETING CALLED Interested Citizens to Discuss Movement in District Building July 23. Efforts of District residents to obtain local suffrage or national representations continue with the an- nouncement that a meeting of leading citizens interested in the movement will be held in the District Building Wednesday, July 23, at 8 p.m. Last month a delegation, called to- gether by William A. Maio, president of the Southeast Citizens’ Association, voted favorably on the so-called “au- tonomy plan,” which would comprise representatives from each of the police precincts. More recently, the group decided that its fight would center on local suffrage rather than national repre- sentation as it would take an act of Congress to -give Washingtonians suffrage. Capital’s Only Will Fly Already famous as Washington's only 1937 triplets, the Middleton ba- bies will add to their laurels this afternoon when they leave theirstrun- dle beds for the first time and board a transport plane at the Washington Airport to fly to Boston. Mary Warner, Adelaide Du Bos and Frances Devismes were born to Mrs. A. Robertson Middleton of 31 West Irving street, Chevy Chase, just five weeks and two days ago in Columbia Hospital. First baby triplets to fly in Wash- ington, the Middletons will also be the youngest children ever to leave the District in an sirplane. With 2 Station. - Leander Reinhardt of Bellville, Ill., seems wistful as he awaits bus for Union train trip Depart by The jamboree is over and thousands of Boy Scouts were en route to their homes in all parts of the Natior to- day, with vivid memories of a 10-day round of thrills, pageantry and fun in the National Capital. Approximately half of the 26926 boys and leaders who joined in Amer- ica’s greatest youth demonstration here had deserted the big encamp- ment overnight, and some 12,000 more will have left Washington by night- fall, jamboree officials estimated. Less than a thousand Scouts and leaders will remain over Sunday and only a skeleton camp staff will be left by Monday evening, it was stated. More than 60 special trains and spe- cial cars were due to carry home-go- ing jamboree delegates to all points of the compass today. Ninety-two trains and special cars rolled out of Union Station and the terminals at Forteenth street and Rosslyn yester- day. Two Specials Leave Tomorrow. Two special trains will leave with Jjamboree groups tomorrow and a third special Monday will carry belated contingents. The jamboree came to an official close with a flourish of trumpets and the striking of colors at 2:30 p.m. yes- terday. At that hour three Scout buglers at general headquarters sounded ‘‘re- treat,” signaling Scouts posted along the “Avenue of Flags” to lower the 56 foreign flags lining the G. H. Q. grand concourse. As other Scouts hauled down Amer- ican and Scout flags from the main flagstaffs at the head of the con- course, the buglers sounded “To the Colors.” ‘The buglers then played “Taps” as the whole company remained at at- tention, and concluded the ceremonies by breaking into the familiar strains of “Auld Lang Syne.” Pronounces Jamboree at End. Dr. James E. West, chief Scout executive, then formally pronounced the jamboree at an end. Earlier in the afternoon Dr. West had presented to District Commis- sioner George E. Allen and members of his Presidential Committee on the jamboree bronze statuettes of a Boy Scout, as mementoes of the jamboree and as tokens of appreciation for their co-operation in making the en- campment a phenomenal success from every standpoint. Allen, in turn, thanked the Scouts for visiting Washington and compli- mented jamboree officials on their handling of the demonstration. things we in Washington have ever | seen,” Allen declared in a Nation- wide broadcast from jamboree head- quarters. Others who received the statuettes were: Capt. L. D. Clay and Maj. W. V. Renner, of the Army; Lieut. A. J. Bolton, of the Navy; Marshall Fin- nan, director of National Capital Parks; Dr. B. N. Bressman, of the Department of Agriculture; Capt. Chester Wells, president of the Dis- trict of Columbia Council, Boy Scouts of America;,D. P. Aub, district man- ager of the American Express Co.; Dr. W. L. Smith, of the United States Public Health Service, and Capt. W. N. Derby of the Coast Guard. The statuettes were the work of Dr. Tait MacKenzie, sculptor and friend of Scouting. Calls Health Record Remarkable. Dr. Smith, in accepting the gift, said the jamboree's health and safety record was “remarkable.” Of 120 hospital cases during the 10 days, he pointed out, only a few were serious. There were three “narrow escapes” from death, he said, in commenting that under the law of averages there should have been a death or two among the nearly 27,000 boys and leaders. The three grave cases, he said, were a ruptured appendix, a rup- tured spleen and s fractured skull received in an automobile accident on 1937 Triplets to Boston Today their mother, the trio will fly to Bos- ton, there to be met by their father. Their plane will take off at 4:35 p.m. Bundled into an American Airlines airship, they will be waited on by a special crew of three hostesses. The only stop en route will be at Newark, N. J. Since the landing will be at 6 p.m.—regular bottle time—there should be no lack of nourishment. At Boston Middleton will join his family. Sunday all will entrain for Portland, Me., the destination being Camp Mechano on Lake Sebago, near there. During the Winter Middleton is sthletle director st St. Alben’s | tures are expected to be removed by | ' put back into commission will be the “It was one of the biggest and best | Nightfall. the Mount Vernon Boulevard. Allare on the road to recovery, he stated. Troops which brought their own tents with them were taking them down today. The majority of tents scattered over the 350-acre camp ground along both sides of the Potomac are owned by the Army and the dis- mantling of these will not start until Monday morning. Jamboree officials have been bonded to guarantee replacement of any Army tents or other Government equipment injured or lost. No Cost to District. Commissioner Allen reiterated yes- terday that the jamboree has not cost citizens of Washington or national | taxpayers a penny. The entire cost of the celebration will be defrayed by the Scouts themselves through a $25 per capita assessment on all campers. “We expect to balance the budget,” Dr. West declared, “although returns from the arena shows were not as| large as we expected.” ‘Finnan announced today that the | park areas the visitors have been oc- cupying will be restored immediately. | The entire job, however, will not be | finished until next Spring when the | grass is expected to be back to nor- mal. Finnan held a meeting yesterday | with executives of the Boy Scouts and ironed out details of the park| restoration, He announced later that work will commence on Monday in the rehabili- tation program. Utilities and struc- August 1, he declared. First to be golf courses in East and West Potomac Parks, the base ball diamonds in the | Washington Monument grounds and the cricket fields on lower Fourteenth street, near the Highway Bridge, the park chief said Start of Reseeding. Reseeding of the area will be started by August 20, and this phase of ‘the work is expected to be com- pleted about November 1, Finnan said. Some Civilian Conservation Corps employes will be utilized in the work of restoration, Finnan said, but he pointed out that the Boy Scouts will bear the costs of rehabilitating the park lands, Congress, by special legislation, granted the Boy Scouts the use of | the park areas for the jamboree. . TE CUT IS SEEN POSSIBLE Reduction Before End of Summer Forecast as Study Is Begun. Possibility of a reduction in tele- phone rates before the end of the Summer was seen today as the staff of the Public Utilities Commission be- gan an engineering and accounting study of the company’s operation dur- ing the last year. If facts disclosed at & subsequent public hearing show the company is earning above 6 per cent on its valua- tion, brought up to date, the com- mission will order a rate cut. There have been successive rate cuts each year since 1934, when the commission won a court test of its valuation and rate case, which had been taken by the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co. That year there was a refund ag- gregating $1,080,000. The next year the commission found the net earn- ings of the company again exceeded 8 per cent and ordered a cut amount- ing to $346,900. Last year the reduc- tion amounted to $253,100. In the 1934 case it was found that the commission's valuation would leave the company a return of 6 per cent on the rate base. In effect the decision of the court was that the 6 per cent return was not unreason- ably low. —_— _THIRD SUSPECT ;lELD Police Continue Investigation of Grocer’s Murder. A third suspect in the murder of Max Dischter, 52-year-old grocery store proprietor who was shot down by a hold-up man June 28, was being 1 held today at No. 2 precinct. The suspect, a colored man, was being held pending the findings of Detective ‘Sergts. C. N. Strange and John Dalglish, assigned to the case. Two other suspects were arrested @& week sgo and subsequently released, The Bellville, Ill., troop departs by bus to the Union Station and a home. —Star Staff Photos. DELAY CONFRONTS WATER-FRONT J0B Army Engineers Decline to Allocate Funds Until D. C. Share Is Put Up. Improvement of the Washington Channel water front—long desired by civic interest—today appeared to have struck a snag, as it was learned the District Commissioners have been ad- vised that Maj. Gen. Edward M. Mark- ham, chief of Army Engineers, de- | clines to allocate any funds for the| program until the District puts up $389,000 as its share of the $1,600,000 undertaking. This news came as a shock to local interests, which had confidently ex- | PALMISANO TALKS ONDISTRIGT PLANS |Advocates Home Rule and | Congressional Represen- tation for Capital. Chairman Palmisano of the House | | District Committee advocated home |rule and congressional representsuon’ !fnr the District yesterday as he out- | lilned the course he plans to follow in recommending legislation for the | District. Recent successor of Representative | Mary T. Norton as District Comm)t-? tee head, Palmisano, in an effort to| refute what he termed “an unwar- PRESIDENT 15 TOLD - C. 1. 0. UNIT SEEKS VOIGE FOR WORKER Federal Union’s Aim Is to * Give Employe Part in~ Shaping Conditions. | BAKER REPLY ‘AGREES’ WITH WARNING ON BODY Organization Promises Drive Against Unpaid Overtime, Casual Furloughs. The United Federal Workers of America aims at giving the unorgan- ized employes of the Government a voice in shaping working conditions, Jacob Baker, head of the John L. Lewis group, said today in response to the statement yesterday by Presi- , dent Roosevelt defining the limits of | collective bargaining for Federal per- sonnel. The President had laid down the principle that no single organization could be constituted as spokesman for an establishment where several were represented, and had pointed to negotiation machinery he had set up as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1913, “The national officers and organizers of the United Federal Workers' of America share the President’s view that a system of adjustment of wage and working conditions is as necessary now as it was in 1913, when the Presi= ¢ dent, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, first established it there,” Baker said. Give Workers a Voice. “Government workers not only have the right to be heard, as the President said, but the United Federal Workers feel a responsiblity for the organiza- tion of unorganized workers so that they may be heard in discussion of working conditions and the settlement, of any problems that may arise. The range of such discussions, while limited by law, is as extensive as is the range | of administrative discretion and a great deal of effective work can be done in benefit of the public service and improvement of the conditiong, of the workers.” The U. F. W, in another statement by Baker today, “viewed with satisfac- tion” the House action in voting to repeal the marital status law, and promised to work for like action by pected the War Department would ap- | fanted attack” by a local newspaper | the Senate, recalling that unions now F “tion $285,000 without initiate the first year's work on the | eight-year program out of the rivers | and harbors appropriation, now near- | ing the end of the congressional gamut. | of the District,” emphatically stated “The record will disclose I have always taken the position that the people of the District were entitled delay to|on his “position toward the people |affiliated with it had campaigned for this cause. Overtime Drive Promised. “The same kind of campaign against ¢ arbitrary and unpaid overtime and Now comes the word that the chief | to legislation which they consider |the disruption Ofvesfifnuél services by of Army Engineers is legally barred beneficial to them. I have repeatedly |Cc&sual furloughs” also was promised. from advancing funds until the Dis- | trict’s coffers are opened. | Hitherto those in close touch with developments were under the impres- sion Gen. Markham and his associates | would allot $285,000 to begin the | work early in this new fiscal year, leaving the District’s share to be paid | later. The understanding was that | the District's money would be forth- | coming when the municipal structures were to be erected along the Washing- ton Channel, about the third year of the project, as approved by Con- gress. Under the latest development the District will have to pay its share before the Federal Government does any work at all. Army Engineers' Requirements. Ordinarily the Army Engineers re- quire that a city, county or State put | up its share of a river or harbor im- provement before the Federal Gov- ernment advances any funds. The District, civic interests argue, is in a different category, inasmuch as Con- gress appropriates funds for both the Federal and District governments. Hence, they say, the District should not be required to lay its cash on the table first, because Congress will be good for it, anyway. Under the program as set up by Maj. Walter D. Luplow, district en- gineer for the War Department for the Washington area, the first year's work would not include structures for the District, but the $285,000 required would embrace parts of the two new | yacht basins and a yacht service and supply building. The District Commissioners were officially advised by Maj. Luplow of the chief of Army Engineer's action. . Fund for Plans. Congress and the Army Engineers tion of plans for the Channel water front improvement, and these have been indorsed by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and | the Fine Arts Commission. The plans now are ready for execution, and the allotment for starting the program is all that is necessary to set the machinery in motion. Maj. Joseph D. Arthur jr., now in Ohio supervising flood control on the Muskingum River, who was district engineer for the War Department for the Washington area a few years ago, recommended the District pay $389,000 for improving the Washington Chan- nel, and that the balance be paid by the United States Government. The division engineer concurred, but when it came before the Rivers and Harbors board at Army Engilneers’ headquar- ters here, that body urged the ex- pense be divided equally between the District and Federal governments, Congress, however, in the enabling legislation adopted the view of Maj. Arthur and set the District's share at $389,000. The chief of Army Engi- neers said it was none of his business to recommend details of the financing and left that up to Congress. As civic interests now view the prob- lem in the light of the newest devel- opment, it is & question as to Just when the District should pay its $389,000. Ordinarily when s mu- nicipality, county or State pays in its share of money for a rivers and har- bors project that moey loses its identi- ty and the Army Engineers can pro- ceed with construction as they see fit—erecting National Government improvements firat if they desire it that way. BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band, in the bandstand, at 7 o'clock tonight. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. March. “The Mountain Trajl"” Qverture, “In_Springtime’ Duet for trombone_and (i Night in_Venic (Music! --Karl King ~Goldmark ne, Lucantoni ark and have given $15,000 for the prepara-i"nd it would be necessary to have | made such statements on the floor of the House.” Cites One Limitation. “However, there is one limitation | to this general statement,” he con-| tinued, “and that is I do not feel that | the District should ask for legislation | which would be detrimental to the| bordering States, Maryland and Vir- ginia. On the other hand, I take the position that Congress should not pass any laws that would give Mary- land and Virginia an advantage over | the District.” Speaking at a luncheon meeting of the Advisory Board of the American | Automobile Association, District Mo- tor Club, attended by several mem- bers of the House District Committee and ranking officials of the District government, Palmisano declared | “there are some people in the Dis- trict who are inclined to think that the members of Congress as a body are hostile toward them.” He denied this, stating: “The ma- Jority of the members of both Houses of Congress are endeavoring to make this city the most beautiful in the | United States, and at the same time | they want to give the people of the District what the people desire.” Favors District Home Raule. ‘The speaker said he favored home rule for the District, but contended “a lot of study” would be necessary be- fore local governmental change should be adopted. “What I say about your local af- fairs, the same principle applies to | having representatives in both| branches of Congress,” he concluded. “This provision, of course, would have | to be by a constitutional amendment, | three-fourths of the States ratify the | amendment.” | A. A. A. Manager Speaks. Russell E. Singer, general manager of the A. A. A, followed Chairman | Palmisano with an appeal to Con- | gress and the press of Washington to support remedies advanced to relieve the city's “perplexing” traffic prob- lems. He stated the blame cannot be placed on the District officials, as they do not have adequate authority nor funds to cope with the problems. Both Chairman Palmisano's and Singer’s addresses were broadcast. Guests at the luncheon included Representatives Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, Laurence F. Arnold of Illinois, Dewey Short of Missouri and William F. Allen of Delawere, all members of the House District Com- mittee; Commissioners Hazen and Sultan, Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal, Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways for the District; William A. Van Duzer, directer of vehicles and traffic; Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, and Inspec- tor W. E. Holmes, in charge of traffic. Washington I. Cleveland, manager of the District Motor Club, outlined the club's activities at the outset of the session. John L. Vandergrift, vice chairman of the Advisory Board, presided. THREE LIEUTENANTS OF POLICE TRANSFERRED Walter Storm of Traffic Division ‘Will Head School—Other, Changes. Transfer of three police lieutenants was announced late yesterday by Supt. Ernest W. Brown. Lieut. John Fondahl will go from the first precinct to the Traffic Divi- sion and his place at the precinct will be taken by Lieut. Walter H. Thomas, now head of the Police School. ans. Robert E. Vincent Sgueo. Scenes from the opera, “La Traviata' umbers. T3 £ [0S = tormy Weather'” (request) “Traume sud den Ocea: on the Ocean) ~Warren Lieut. Walter Starm, Traffic Divi- sion, who recently won one of the highest marks of lieutenants taking mination for promotion, will head Police School. fi Mr. Roosevelt's statement that economies are not to be effected at the expense of the workers also brought an expression of approval from Charles 1. Stengle, president of the American Federation of Govern- ment Employes. Writing to thank the President Stengle said “this splendid humani- tarian attitude is not only indicative , of your sympathy with the working men and women of this country, bt reveals sound economic and social insight.” AR R. A. IS QUITTING M’LEAN MANSION Barr Building Offices of Agency Already Are Being Moved. This is moving month for the Re- settlement Administration, and before gust 1 the agency expects to desert its gilded halls at 2020 Massachusetts avenue, the McLean mansion where princes dined before stenographers came to write letters to farmers about resettlement loans. Already the offices of the chief ad-, ministrative officials, W. W. Alexander and Howard Baldwin, have been moved from the Barr Building to the South Building, Agriculture Depart- ment. The personnel division and the press information division are ex- pected to be transferred from the Barr Building to the Arlington Hotel. The departure from the McLean house is set for the week of July 24 to 31. It has been occupied by the Sub- urban Resettlement Division, which, it is thought, will be housed in the Barr Building. SWIMMING AT NIGHT WILL BE EXTENDED East Potomac Pool to Be Open Until Midnight, and Ana- costia's, 10 0'Clock. Night swimming will be extended, officials of the National Capital Parks announced today, to enable Washing- tonians to cool off during the hot season. The schedule is effective im- mediately. . The East Potomac Park pool will be open until midnight. The Ana- costia Park pool, which has not been opened regularly at night, will main- tain service untill 10 p.m. At the Takoma Recreation Center, Fourth and Van Buren streets, the pool will stay in operation untll 9:30 pm. The McKinley pool at First street and Lincoln road northesst will| close at 10 p.m. The Banneker Recreation Center's pool, near Howard University, will re- main open until 8 pm. The Francis swimming pool is closed at dark, au- thorities said, as there is no elec- trical illumination there. DEPARTMENT STORES START 5-DAY WEEK_ Other Shops Close at Noon or 2 P.M. to Let Employes Find Cool Spots, Most of the downtown department stores were closed today, staming the five-day week which they will observe during July and August. With two days off, hundreds of employes sought cooler spots for the week end. Other stores closed at noon or at 2 pm. Virtually all of them will res, lease their employes Saturday afters, noons for the rest of the Summer, the Merchants and Manufatturers’ Asso» ciation announced.