Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1937, Page 19

Wash - ‘HOME-RGLE' PLAN FORD.C.TOENTAIL END OF 1,000 J0BS Kennedy’s Bill Would Effect Reductions by Not Filling Future Vacancies. CITY GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY IS AIM | Economy by Cutting Overlapping | Agencies and Citizen Advi- sory Unit Seen. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland disclosed today his plan for reorganizing the District govern- ment would eventually lead to a reduc- tion of about 1,000 municipal employes. Kennedy sald the plan does not con- template the immediate dismissal of the employes, but the non-filling of vacancies as they occur in the ington News | The Foen WASHINGTON, D. [ & WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ’l Uy ny Stap TUESDAY, JULY 27, 193 “The Old Oaken Bucket” Still Hangs by the Well Right Here in Capital Society and General B PAGE B—l_. | change in the present opening | of schools. CHANCE 1S SOUGHT N SCHOOL HOURS S SAFETY MOVE Brown and Van Duzer Urge Delay Until After Traffic Peak. HAZEN SENDS REPORT TO EDUCATION BOARD Staggered Hours Most Effective Way to Solve Problem, Director Says. Efforts to safeguard school from rush-hour traffic hazards will be renewed today when Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen forwards to the Board of Education a report urging a ur | intendent Both Maj. Ernest W. of pol Brown, supers i Traffic Die Duzer, TE- exe open- Van future through retirements, deaths and other causes. } The reorganization scheme is to be embodied in gn omnibus bill Kennedy | plans to introduce in the House in the next few days. All details of the plan may be made public before that time. Kennedy's plan is predicated on increasing the efficiency of the munic- ipal government and at the same time | providing methods of economy that | | y will ultimately save taxpayers thou-i | sands of dollars a year. He also pro-| | poses to give residents of the District | ‘Jenckes Asks Department | of citizens to aid the Commissioners * in solving budget and other important |Chairman Expects to Call for Action Out of Reg- Heads to Make Inquiry of Cause of Tie-up. The old oaken bucket and the well still are supplying water to lots of folks in Washington, despite all the modern progress we like to boast about. Here is one being eramined by an in- credulous Star employe. It is in service at the home of William Montague, colored, 3210 Fif- teenth street southeast. Nobody knows eractly how many wells still are being used in the District. The Bureau of Sanitary Inspection plans to begin a thorough survey this week, getting the first com- plete record of how many wells there are, their loca- tion and condition and the number of people they serve. On Magazine road southeast, near the Naval Research Laboratory, the inspectors will find this one where Harry Proctor, 15, is shown pouring a bucket of fresh water for his 4-year-old sister Pearline. the peak s passed is toward And at the home of W. J. Wil- liams, in the 3900 block of Nichols avenue southeast, they will find this tank into which water used to be pumped from the well for easy flow into the house. and over a truck garden which now has been aban- doned. The tank isn’t in service any more, but Mrs. Williams still depends on the well for her water supply. Here she is shown pumping some into the kitchen sink. Director J. Frank Butts of the Bureau of Sanitary Inspection thinks there may be as many as 400 wells still being used in the District. --Star Staff Photos. mont Maj. Brown proposed ing s of from 9 am 930 am ed tioned at be ass {A;lim:ostiu Officer for 40 Years []l_l] ARCHI :De plores Loss of Personal Touch TECTURE STATES T0 CHECK. ~ ART ON ExigrT. ON PLANTING SITE declared, “esp :r-a'bd in the Re-employment Project Sub- Sesquicentennial Group Dis- jects to Serve as Record | CUSSes Markers and Trees. ! of Antiquity. | Names Committee. | after the traffic T Suggests “Stagger Radio-Car Men Cnn’t' Know People on Beat, Lusby Sa nel, Kennedy indicated, can be effected through consolidations of various agencies which perform overlapping services, and also by the adoption of « modern equipment in certain depart- ments. Modern billing machinery in the tax assessor's office, he pointed Pvt. Thomas A. Lusby looked back today on more than 40 vears in police werk “across the river” and decided municipal problems. A reduction in the employe person- ular Order. Although the District lost what may | out, would enable that office to drop a number of employes and increase its efficiency. Kennedy emphasized, however, the purpose of his plan “is not to force people out of employment.” He pointed out it would take con- siderable time to put his proposed reorganization plan into operation, and that it would be possible for Dis- trict officials to bring about a gradual reduction in personnel by not filling . Vacancies as they occur. | an opportunity to call up the impor- | be its last legislative day in the House ia! the current session of Congress, | Chairman Palmisano of the District | Committee expressed the belief today the House would clear its calendar 1of all important local legislation be- fore adjournment. The next regularly scheduled Dis- trict day is August 9. Palmisano 1s confident the House will give him Congress today was taking an in- | creasing interest in the strike of union | painters against Federal projects contracted through the Procurement | Division of the Treasury Department | as Representative Jenckes, Democrat, 1of Indiana, a member of the House | District Committee, called on heads of | three departments to make thorough and impartial inquiries into the causes and circumstances of the tie-up. Other members on Capitol Hill also that the modern machine-age officer has little ghance to be a “real police- man." “The man cruising about in a radio scout car misses a very important part of a policeman’s job—getting to know the people.” the 68-year-old veteran of No. 11 precinct explained. “Why up until 15 years ago I knew | by their first names every man, woman aand child that lived this side of the river,” he said. “And they knew me | so well that no difference what hap- pened. they'd come and tell me. The first public exhibit using the art gallery in the new Interior De- partment Building—that of the His- torical American Buildings Survey, primarily a re-employment project for architectural draftsmen—opened to- day. Approximately 117 measured draw- ings and 110 photographs of 53 sub- jects form the main part of the ex- hibit. Besides these are water colors of early Louisiana architectures and s for representative tree plant- ing by inal States ratifying the Consti n. as part of the sesquicen- tennial celebration of the adoption of that document, progressed a step fur- ther yesterday with the naming of | committees to investigate the chosen | site. They will determine the nature and number of trees to be planted and re and number of explanatory | 1mittees were chosen by Repre- sentative J. Buell Snyder of Penns insta Van e of protec additional Traffic Signs Available. Portable signs L the speed of vehicles to 15 mil in school zones will be made available if the Board of Education will arrange to | have janitors remove them when thev | are not needed, Van Duzer said would be unsatisfactory to impede tant District bills on the calendar out of regular order if an adiourn- ment time is fixed before that date vania, presiding officer of the luncheon | ow of trafic in school zones wh meeting at the Library of Congress of | - afic in school zones when he Library of Con | the schools are mot in session, Van Tepresentatives, from the State so- | e Duzer pointed out cleties concerned. Of the orizinal | iy’ Pointed States New Jersey. Connecticut.!yopon’y it Zey | Rhode Island and Maryland were not | HAZe0 that the 25 new men” now in the polic represented. e The Committee on Site Investiga- | 3 tion will inspect the proposed location east of Rosslvn on the George Wash- | colored measured drawings of early Spanish church interiors from the Southwest. The exhibition is under “the supervision of John P. O'Neill of the survey. Variety Includes Farm Homes. 3 = The drawings include Colonial EVTLTAC Ao ‘g'ufflb Sy 1 homes, churches, schools and in some | cases distinetive types of farm houses “It meant a fight nearly every time | 8nd cabins. The great majority have Kennedy quietly worked out the reorganization plan after more than three months of serious study of vari- ous municipal problems. He predicted its adoption would give the municipal machinery its first gencral overhauling and modernization since the commis- sion form of government was estab- lished in 1878. Various tax experts have aided Ken- | “I'm not condemning all the modern are becoming concerned about the sit- | stufl. It's good for what it's made uation and some of the allegations| for. But it can't take the place of Palmisano relinquished Distiict day | being made in connection with it, knowing people to get information.” vesterday at the request of House | Mrs. Jenckes said. One of the oldest policemen on the leaders who suddenly changed their | 5 % metropolitan force in point of service, S e fmlv[ad-j Meanvhile, as the painters remained Lusbyphas Bt smnor?ed atione patt journment in view, to take up the con- | Off the jobs other building tasks ap- | perhaps longer than any other in the ference report on the Interior De- | Proached the point where they must | District. He completed 40 years' partment appropriation bill and other | be held up pending completion of paint | Service as a policeman last April, and e school will igned to school safety patrol this Fall Action to retain the 9 o'clock open- ing hour has already been taken by nedy. He also sought the advice of | officials of the Brookings Institution, who have made studies in the past of the District government organization | and needed reforms. Although Kennedy does not expect eongressional approval of his plan at | the current session, he said it would | be ready for consideration at the | begimning of the next session in | January. Hee BAND CONCERTS. By the Navy Band at the District War Memorial in West Potomac Park at 8 o'clock tonight. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, essistant. Program. Overture, “La Princesse Jaune,” Saint-Saens Fantasia, “Carnival of Venice"_Barnes | Bolo for trombone, “Caprice”-.._Rose (Clarence Edwards Belection of “Old Favorites”__Benter Gems from the opera, “The Pearl Fishers"” 5 --Bizet .+ Valse, “Tales of Vienna Woods," Strauss Three numbers: (a) “Intermezzo from Goyecas” (b) “Marionettes at Midnight,” Noack (c) “Danse Boheme". FPantasia, “Alpine Memories”__Winter “Triumphal March”._.___Chiaffarelli “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Marine Band at Walter Reed | Hospital at 6:30 o’clock tonight. Capt. | Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Bantelmann, assistant. Program. March, “First Medical Regiment." | Natafalusy *Overture, “The Force of Destiny," Verdi “Deep Purple” Euphonium solo, “Premier Polka,” Llewellyn (Donald Kimball.) Excerpts from “Maytime”____Romberg Humoreske, “Comin’ Thru the Rye,” . Bellstedt Baritone saxophone solo, “My Regards” -Llewellyn (Felix Eau Claire.) “Rhugnba,” from “Second Sym- phony” Grand scenes from “Faust”._Gounod “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the bandstand at 7 o'clock tonight. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. Program. March, “The Gridiron Club”..__Sousa Overture, “Soldiers and Sweet- - ---Bergenholtz (Depicting the gradual evolution of “Dixie,” slowly through “The Crea- tion,” “Dance Aboriginal” and the “Minuet,” the melody is then de- veloped until there emerges the im- mortal “Dixie.” This in turn becomes a waltz, then ragtime and finally grand opera and the finale.) Scenes from comic opera, “Pinafore,” Y Sullivan * Popular numbers: “‘Honest and Truly”. ---Rose “In My Gondola”__ Warren Walts suite, “The Ambassador,” Strauss |funds to tide the municipal govern- important national legislation. Refused to Block Program. Although criticised for his action, Palmisano said he could not afford to block the program of the leaders, particularly at this time. “I co-operated with the leaders work, and chances of settlement ap- peared stalemated by refusal of one | of the contractors to come here from ! }Atlanla, Ga,, for a conference with‘ | representatives of the union and the | Conciliation Service of the Department | of Labor. and I know they will co-operate with me,” he declared. “I believe thev | will give me an opportunity to call | up important District bills when there | is a break in their program.” | commissioners to borrow Federal | ment over its prospective period of insolvency between August 1 and Oc- tober 1. A similar authorization is | in the tax bill now in conference, and is expected to be approved by | both House and Senate conferees, so the lack of action on the loan bill is not regarded as serious. Adoption Law Change. Another major bill is designed to strengthen the existing adoption law. Palmisano plans to give that a pre- | ferred status on the calendar. The third bill provides several changes in the liquor control act, one of which would permit the sale of hard liquor by the drink over bona fide lunch counters. The fourth measure, which has been on the cal- endar for two months, would license and control barbers. C. 1. 0. READIES DRIVE FOR FARM LABORERS Preliminaries Laid to Organize 5,000,000 Workers in Meeting Here. Preliminary plans were made here last night to open a drive for the en- listment of the country's 5,000,000 farm, packing and canning laborers in the newly-organized United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied ‘Workers of America, affiliated with the ?ommmee for Industrial Organiza- ion. At a meeting in the Friends’ Meeting House, 1811 I street, under the aus- pices of the Washington Committee to Aid Agricultural Workers, of which C. W. Fowler is chairman, Donald Hen- derson of New Jersey, president of the new union, explained that one purpose of the organization would be to serve as & link between industrial unionism and the small farmer. The union, formerly affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, voted to join the C. I. O. at its first annual convention July 12 in Denver, Colo. It clalms at present 100,000 members. BURNS ARE FATAL Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, about 80, col- ored relief client, died today of burns received when her clothing caught fire in her two-room dwelling at 833 Lib- erty street southwest. A neighbor, Mrs. Elizabeth Grey, col- ored, noticed smoke and broke down the door. She found Mrs. Allen, her clothes in flames, lying in the doorway between the two rooms. Apparently Finale, “Gen. Pershing”_.Vandersloot & “The Star Spangled Banner.” Earv clothes had caught fire from a e in the kitchen, Miss Perkins Confident. Asked yesterday if she had any com- ment to make on the strike, Secretary The most important bill on the | Of Labor Perkins expressed confidence | District calendar would authorize the | that an “adjustment” would be made, | adding that a “favorable situation” seemed to be developing in efforts of the conciliation service. “'Congress must take a direct in- terest in the painters’ strike,” Mrs. Jenckes said in announcing the filing of her appeals for investigations by the Treasury, Labor and Post Office De- partments. “On account of my membership on the District of Columbia Committee, I have been applied to by citizens of the District to demand that the De- partment of Labor make a thorough and impartial investigation of the al- legations and charges of organized labor which caused the strike and ex- pose the cause of the strike which 1 fear may take city-wide proportions. This would cause a great loss of wages to thousands of workers engaged in construction work and loss of busi- ness to merchants and business men in the National Capital. Contractor Refuses. “I have made a formal and official request to the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury and to the Postmaster General urging that sweeping and thorough investigations be made by those departments in order to insure industrial peace in the Nation's Capital.” The conference refusal came yester- day from William Wilson & Sons of Atlanta, the firm which holds two contracts for work in the Bureau of Internal Revenue and one in the city post office. 1t is charged by Bryce P. Holcombe, business agent of the local psinters’ union, that this firm and that of Coones & Raptis of New York, holding a contract for another project in the city post office, have discriminated against union men and that they are violating the Davis-Bacon law with regard to wages and hours on public Jobs, EMPTY CHURCH SAFE WITHSTANDS ROBBERS Asbury M. E. Office Ransacked and Widow Smashed, but Nothing Is Missing. Had the robbers who tried so hard to open the safe at the Asbury M. E. Church Saturday been successful the Jjoke would have been on them because there was no money in it, Rev. Robert M. Williams, the pastor, laughingly told police today. “I'd have reported the incident sooner,” Rev. Williams said, “but the church officials thought I would take care of the matter, and I relied on them to do so.” Nothing was stolen from the office, which had been ransacked by the thieves, who gained entrance the church by smashing a rear window. | for 39 vears of that period he has been at No. 11 precinct in Anacostia. | Most of his service has been as a got to know the folks in the South- eastern section of the District so well He rode a horse on his beat for 25 and make friends with the people. He boasts that “every kid growing up here ; in the last 40 years knew me.” Since dismounted eight years ago, he has been a general utility man, filling in at several posts in the precinct. With a chuckle, Lusby recalled the time about 12 years ago he caught a hit-and-run automobile driver after a mile chase on horseback The motorist was chagrined that a horse | had bested his machine. Lusby became a policeman not for for my wife and children.” And he doesn't recall any outstanding thrills police calendar except arson. never has had to use his gun. But he mounted policeman and that's how he | years, stopping on his rounds to talk | thrills, but “to get something to eat | during his 40 years’ service. He has | arrested people for every crime on the | we arrested anybody in the old days,” he said, “but it was just a matter of main strength and awkwardness. Criminals usually were mature men then. Now they are all just young- | sters.” than either before or during prohibi- tion, he thinks. “When a man stood up to a bar he usually could tell when he had enough.” Lusby said. “Now the youngsters sit at tables in lunch rooms, with no effort to govern their drinking and more of them get bad drunk.” Horses are still Lusby's principal | hobby. ~ He usually keeps one for | riding in his leisure time. His wife is | dead and he lives with a bachelor son | at 1417 U street southeast, a fe.v miles from his birthplace in Maryland. Eligible for retirement for the last 10 years, Lusby is reluctant to turn in his badge (No. 492), because he doesn't know what he would do with himself if he quit work. So “Pop.” as his colleagues call him, hopes to be around No. 11 for a long time yet. MARRIAGE CLAUSE Roosevelt Signs Bill Ending Stormy Life of Economy Act Section. After a stormy life of little more than five years the marital status law, product of the economy act of 1932, today had passed out of existe ence, repeal legislation passed by House and Senate a few days ago getting the approval of - President Roosevelt late yesterday. The law had been bitterly fought by organized ‘employes and women's groups since it was enacted as a “spread work” plan in the Hoover ad- ministration. It provided for dismissal either of husband or wife in necessary reduc- tions of force where married couples were employed in Government serv- ice, and also gave preferential em- ployment status to unmarried per- sons. Critics had charged that it was discriminatory and had resulted prin- cipally in the discharge of women in lower grades. g Available figures indicated that it was applied in about 1,700 cases, but many of those dropped through its operation found re-employment later. The repeal of the law will lighten the work of the Civil Service Commis- sion to the extent that it will no longer figure in certifications for em- ployment. Coyote Shot in Lincoln, Nebr. LINCOLN, Nebr. (#.—E. R. and W. A. Harrington, driving along Lin- coln’s main thoroughfare, sighted a coyote. They hurried away and got & gun, then returned and cho‘he ani- mal. LAW IS REPEALED DRVER IS ELEARED INDOVLING DEATH Motorist May Pass Inside Loading Platform if Sign Is Missing, Coroner Holds. After being told by Coroner Mac- Donald that an automobile may law- fully pass inside a street car loading platform where there is no sign di- recting otherwise, a coroner's iury yesterday held accidental the vraffic death Thursday of Frank Widney Dowling, 75, of 2109 F street. “The absence or inconspicuousness of directing signs on street car load- ing platforms has been indirectly re- sponsible for two traffic deaths in the last two weeks,” MacDonald said to the jury. “Where no sign directs otherwise it may be considered law- ful for the motorist to pass inside the platform.” Policeman Thomas V. Slominski of the second precinct testified there was no official Police Department sign on the platform when Dowling was ..truck by an automobile June 11 and that a directing sign on the end of the platform had been painted over ana was indistinguishable. Dowling, for 10 years marshal of the Associatipn of Oldest Inhabi- tants of the District of Columbia, was run down between the two load- ing platforms on Fourteenth street north of U by a taxicab driven by Roy E. Smith, 21, of 1102 Seventh street southwest. Smith was exon- erated by the jury's verdict. His testimony that he was driving “about 15 miles an hour” was corroberated by other witnesses. Funeral services for Mr. Dowling were held yesterday afternoon in Western Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. J. Harvey Dunham, pastor, offi- ciated. Burial was in {)Ik Hill Cemetery. . | Drinking conditions are worse now been done by unemployed architectural ”drarmmen and photographers. Some, | however, have been submitted by | universities, , independent architects | and National Park Service field archi- | tects Yesterday a special preview was held for the benefit of Secretary of In- terior Ickes, W. P. A. Administrator | Harry Hopkins, Dr. Lester B. Holland, | chief of the fine arts division of the National Park Service, and Charles D. Maginnis, president of the Amer- | ican Institute of Architects. Preserves Early Examples. | | The survey had its inception In | 1932 under the branch of plans and designs of the National Park Service and is run under an agreement be- | tween the park service, the American Institute of Architects and the Library i"f Congress. Its aim is to obtain as ‘cnmplole a graphic record as poss;ble‘ ‘of rapidly disappearing examples of | early architecture and historical | | structures throughout the country. So far work has been started in 40 | States and Puerto Rico, that in New Jersey being in the most advanced state. Drawings are bound at the Library of Congress and filed for reference work, together with photo- static negatives for illustrative pur-| poses. Colored drawings have not | been made in duplicate. Architects | and those interested in architecture may refer to these folios as text books. Altogether a total of 14,300 drawings | have been made of 2,130 buildings. Since inauguration of the program | approximately 150 of the structures| | drawn have been destroyed. TRUCK KILLS MAN C. A. Neville, Electric Company Employe, Crushed to Death. Claude A. Neville, 39, colored, 635 Forty-ninth street northeast, employe of the Potomac Electric Power Co., was killed today when crushed be- tween a company portable compressor and a truck in the 5400 block of First place. He was pronounced dead at Casualty Hospital The driver of the truck, L. I. Ed- ward, 7614 Blair road, also a Pepco employe, was held at the sixth pre- cinct pending a coroner’s inquest, but | later was released in custody of his! employer. ington Boulevard Saturday under the direction of A. H. Hanson of the Na- tional Capital Parks. The group will | leave the C street entrance of the new Interior Department at 10 am. Hanson made the principal speech at yesterday's meeting, explaining to | the group with the aid of blueprints, | limitations of | the possibilities and the half-mile-long strip selected. He read a list of 30 trees which in his opinion could grow there and from | which definite selections by each so- | ciety will be made. Hanson estimated the cost of a tree | to each society plus the planting would | If each group had its | be about $15. own marker, he thought the cost of the marker would be about $17, mak- ing a total of about $32 bility of a single group marker was discussed and will be investigated by the special committee. Commissioner Hazen also gave a short speech assuring co-operation by the District in the project. He said a | co-operative committee would soon be appointed Other guests included members of the Sesquicentennial ~Commission staff. SENATE ACTION NEAR ON NAVY HOSPITAL BILL Favorable Report Filed on Meas- ure Authorizing New Medical Center Here. Early Senate action is expected on the bill already passed by the House authorizing erection of a new naval hospital and naval medical center in or near the District. Chairman Walsh of the Naval Affairs Committee has Jjust filed that group's favorable report | on the bill. Six years ago Congress authorized replacement of the Naval Hospital Building with new structures on the present site, but officials later reached the conclusion the present location would be inadequate for future needs. The original program of 1931 would have cost $3.200,000. This bill au- thorizes an additional $1,650.000, with authority to the department to place the new layout of buildings on a dif- ferent site. Concealing a revolver from passers- | by with a coat slung over his arm, a| daring bandit held up and robbed a Sanitary Grocery clerk of between $200 and $300 shortly before noon to- day while the clerk was en route to a bank with the money, representing the receipts of two stores. The clerk, Charles Harvey, about 22, had left- a Sanitary store at 1015 Eleventh street and wss about to cross the intersection of Tenth and K streets when the bandit accosted him. “Do you know where the Sanitary employment center is, buddy?” Harvey quoted the bandit ying, Without waiting Yor an answer, Grocery Clerk Robbed of $200 As Crowd Passes on Street the bandit, a short, stocky, red-faced man of about 40, pointed the half- hidden revolver at Harvey and said “Let’s have indicating a small satchel in which the money was con- tained. After relieving Harvey of the money the bandit cautioned him not to cry out or try to run for help. “There’s another man on the cor- ner, who'll get you if you do,” the bandit warned before walking hur- riedly away. Harvey, who lives at 3112 Mount Pleasant street, had collected yester- day's receipts from another Sanitary store, in the 1100 block of Thirteenth street, before he ghad gone to the Eleventh street 3 The possi- | the School Board in a vote against a change to 8:30 last October. Investiga- ion was made by Supt. Frank W. Bal- lou in response to a letter requ the change of hours by Fre Delano. chairman of the r Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion. Poll Plurality for 8:30. Dr. Ballou reported to the board October 21, basing a recommendat against the change on poll the parents. The poll revealed 29.109 | votes, representing 32.5 per cent of the school children, favoring the 8:30 change: 13,224 votes, representing 14.7 per cent of the school children favored 9:30 as the opening h and 18,881 votes, covering 21.9 per cent of the enrollees, favored the old hour of 9 am The superintendent called attention | of the board at the time to the fact that these figures left nearly 32 per cent of the enrollees unrepresented and that those favoring 8:30 did not represent a majority. He also said | the real problem was the closing hour | anyway, and that there were many ramifications to the hour change out= side the traffic elements In debate prior to the board action Henry Quinn, a lawyer member of the board, said he thought the burden of proof should be on those favoring the change, 'DOSE OF ANTISEPTIC FATALTO MRS. KLATT Woman Dies in Hospital After Telling Phone Operator She'd Taken Poison. Mrs. Irma Dean Klatt, 35. died last night in Casualty Hospital shortly after she was found suffering from a large dose of a poisonous antiseptic in her basement apartment, at 110 Mary- land avenue northeast Mrs. Klatt phoned the switchboard operator of the apartment house, saying she had taken poison, police reported. Finding her in a dazed condition, Arthur Burke, colored, who lives at Howard University, summoned the resident manager, who in turn called for police and medical aid As the ill woman was being removed from the building her husband. Fred G. Klatt, engineer of the @partment, and their 14-year-old daughter, Pat- | ricia, returned home. Kiatt said his wife had been despondent and in ill health for two years Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald was to perform an autopsy on the woman today, prior to issuing a cere tificate. e ) SRS DRUG BILL OFFERED Chairman King of the Senate Dis« trict Committee introduced in the Senate the bill recommended by the Commissioners to regulate the pos- session and manufacture of narcotics here. It was offered in the House several days ago by Representative Palmisano of Maryland, chairman of the House District Committee. The Commissioners point out local authorities frequently are handicapped in narcotic enforgement by insufficient local legislation.