Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1937, Page 21

Washington News Society and General The Foening Shap WASHINGTON, Y Joy \ D. WEDNESDAY, AUGU 1937, Fxx 4) Service Band Leaders Frown on Idea They Eat, Sleep and Drink Music PAGE B—1 DOCTORS T0 PROBE PROPOSED CLINI FOR U, S, BUREAU HOUSE L RGES GRAVELLY PONT AS AIRPORT STE Smith Measure Authorizes | Commission Creation and $2,500,000 Fund. USE OF BOLLING FIELD WOULD BE PERMITTED Military Affairs Committee Re- ports Amended May Plan for Washington Field. With the House Military Committee committed to a bill for the enlargement of Washington Air- Affairs | port, which its chairman and airport | officials characterize as “‘unworkable,” and with Camp Springs. Md, airport legislation apparently blocked, Rep- resentativfie Smith, Democrat, of Vir- | ginia late yesterday introduced in the House & bill authorizing development of tre Gravelly Point airport site, The Smith bill, somewhat similar to the Gibson bill in the Senate. au- thorizes the creation of a National Capital Airport Commission, which is directed to acquire and fill in the Gravelly Poiint site at a cost of not to exceed $2,500.000, entirely at the cost of the Federal Government. The commission would be composed | of the Assistant Secretary of Com- merce, Col. J. Monroe Johnson; the | director of National Capital Parks, C. | Marshall Finnan, and the Army engi- neer for the local district, Maj. Wal- | ter D. Luplow | Bolling Field Use Provided. Pending the development of Gravelly Point site it would be the| duty of this commission under the | terms of the bill to arrange for the | temporary landing of commercial air- planes at Bolling Field The measure was referred to the House Public Buildings and Grounds Committee, which will be urged to the well played.” youngest band leader, father’s footsteps. Here is Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, 42, Army Band leader, who began his musical career as a baby “playing on the linoleum,” as he described it. Heis a boxer of note, shoots golf in the low 80s, thrives on good steak and, like all the other leaders, enjoys “any music At 22 he became the Army's Jollowing mausicians. up a drumstick.” in his this city. Baton wielder of the Marine Band is Capt. Taylor Branson, 56, father of five children, who also are With the band 39 years he still plays the violin and clarinet. Fried chicken is his favorite dish, music his “sport,” though he likes horse racing, too. He began playing when he “was old enough to pick Though famed for his martial music, Capt. Branson prefers the classics. He is a native of —Star Staff Photos. S. M. Zimmerman, Aweigh.” dish is steak playing the organ China. Oldest of the service bandmasters is John 63, who has conducted the United States Soldiers’ Home Band for 36 years. His father wrote the famed “Anchors An active Elk, Zimmerman's time eraser is pinochle and cribbage. His favorite At the age of 9 vears he was His momentary concern is Jor the safety of his son, a Marine stationed in ment in 27 years ago a musical bra his hobby favorite appetite-satisfier. Lieut. Charles Benter, 50, leader of the Navy Band, hasn't played an instru- hood ambition. years. He began playing 44 nd has been with the Navy's nch 35 years, fulfilling a boy- Amateur photography is and Hungarian goulash his FIDELITY HOLDERS BEGIN NEW PLAN Shareholders Launch Move to Bring Back Savings take immediate action In the meantime the Gravelly Point | site is being filled gradually as a re- eult of the channel-deepening work now being carried on in the George- town and Anacostia Channels under the direction of Army engineers. It is anticipated that before Winter ap- nroximately 100 acres of filled land will be, above water at Gravelly Point #s a result of dredging operations begun during the last fiscal year. Gravelly Point long has been rec- ommended by local aviation, civic and business organizations as the site for | 8 combined local terminal for land- | planes and seaplanes. The Aviation | Committee of the Washington Board | of Trade last week reiterated its stand n support of the Gravelly Point site. | Virginia Body Acts. The National Airport Corp., operator of Washington Airport, has been sum- - moned to appear before the Virginia State Corporation Commission at Richmond on September 15 to explain why the commission should not adopt rules prohibiting airplanes not equipped with radio receiving sets from landing at the airport, accord- ing to an Associated Press dispatch from Richmond. Samuel J. Solomon. manager of the mirport, :xplained today that regula- tions now forbid the use of the airport by planes not equipped with radio re- | ceivers, and that in bad weather all| operations from the airport are con- | trolled by radio. The airport radio | regulation has been in effect since last year and was adopted voluntarily as a safety measure after it had become | epparent traffic at the airport was ap- proaching the point of dangerous con- gestion. A record of more than 510 | landings and take-offs within 16 hours | has been established at the local field, Solomon said. The amended May bill, reported to the House vesterday by the Military | Affairs Committee over the protest of Washington Airport officials, who ¢haracterized it as “meaningless.” to- | day was to be placed on the Union | calendar of the House. Unanimous Consent Sought. Representative Mark Wilcox of | Florida, designated to make the re- port to the House, said that efforts | would be made to have the bill con- | sidered under a unanimous consent agreement possibly next Monday, which now is scheduled for considera- tion of measures on the Union cal- endar. The amended bill would require payment by Washington Airport of $25,000 in advance for a 25-year lease on part of the Military road right of way. The money would be used to construct a substitute road around the airport. The bill also would au- thorize the leasing of 53 acres of the Arlington Experimental Farm site to the airport at an annual rental to be fixed by the Secretary of Agri- eulture. These terms probably will be re- Jected by officials of National Avia- tion Corp, it has been stated. Bolomon said the proposal would be submitted to the Board of Direc- tors of the corporation, but expressed the view privately that the plan was unworkable and would be rejected. ‘Without the use of the farm tract and the Boundary Channel lagoon area, eliminated from the amended May bill, the closing of Military road alone would not solve the difficulties at ‘Washington Airport, he pointed out. POSTMASTER BILL HOPE FUTILE, M'KELLAR SAYS By the Associated Press. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, told the Senate yesterday there is no hope for legislation to carry out the President's request that first, second and third class postmast- ers be put under civil serice. He heads the Senate Subcommittee Which has the bill under consideration. The legislation, he said, is an at- tempt “to take away the constitutional right of the Senate to confirm presi- dential appointments.” Senator O’Mahoney, Democrat, of ‘Wyoming, replied that for years the Benate’s oconfirmation of postmasters has been “a mere formal gesture” since and Loan Set-up. Warned by James H. Nolan, re- ceiver of the Fidelity Building & Loan Association, that unless a ‘“proper reorganization” or sale of the assets of the association could be worked out within a reasonable time it will be necessary to liquidate, a shareholders’ committee launched a new plan today to attempt to bring back into the pic- ture the First Federal Savings & Loan Association. The shareholders were warned by the receiver in a lengthy letter sent out today to all 16,000 shareholders. | This lef | with two inclosures, recited a long- | drawn-out history of negotiations to | reorganize the Fidelity into the First ‘Fedeml Savings & Loan Association, | which recently came to an impasse. The receiver indicated, however, | that the controller of the currency | “stands ready, and likewise our re- | ceiver stands ready, to meet with and | discuss and in every way co-operate | with any representative group of | shareholders at any time for the pur- | pose of trying to formulate and to carry out a proper reorganization or | sale of the assets of the association.” Cash Payment Obstacle. One of the principal points of dif- ference between the Federal Home Loan Bank Board which was spon- soring the formation of a new First Federal on the one hand, and the controller of the currency on the other, was said by the receiver’s letter to be the question of cash payment. The plan of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, declared the letter, “did not contemplate that the new shares would be convertible into cash imme- diately at the option of the share- holders, but would be convertible into cash only in accordance with the charter provisions of the new Federal Association.”' The controller of the currency contended, the letter ex- plained, that under court decisions the necessary feature of the sale of assets of the Fidelity required “that the shareholders have the absolute right of converting the stock imme- diately into cash, to the extent by him desired.” The letter further pointed out that there was a difference of opinion of the nature of a letter to be sent to shareholders concerning the organiza- tion of the First Federal, and eventu- ally the First Federal withdrew. Committee Confers. The Shareholders’ Committee, head- ed by George A. Sullivan, a contractor, conferred today with officials of the Home Loan Bank Board with a view to reorganization. The committee, it was announced afterward, will first attempt to bring back the First Federal organization into negotiations. Failing that, how- ever, it was learned the committee would not give up, but had two or three other plans in mind, the nature of which they would not disclose at the moment. The Depositors’ Committee, headed by Sullivan and former Senator C. C. Dill, conferred with T. D. Webb, vice chairman of the Home Loan Board. The board, it was indicated, afterward will be willing to continue negotiations with a view to reorganization of Fidel- ity into a Federal savings and loan association. The First Federal, however, officially is still out of the picture. It was withdrawn by a letter written by its president, Harry P. Somerville, man- ager of the Willard Hotel, sent to the Home Loan Bank Board. The Sullivan Committee, it is under- | stood, will approach the First Federal with a view to seeing whether some members of its committee might be added to the board of the first Federal as additional directors, to represent the depositing shareholders. At pres- ent the First Federal has only 7 mem- bers on its board, but the charter authorizes 15 menbers. Thus, there are really vacancies for 8 more mem- bers on the board of the First Federal. Spelling Club to Meet. The Capital City Spelling Club will meet tonight in Mount Pleasant Li- brary. Juniors will spell at 7 p.m. and they actually are named by Represente atives, 4 [] adults at 8. A list of all words ending @ “Ible” will be distributed. tter, printed on four pages and | 29 HACKERS FIGHT BANBYVANDUZER iPetitinn Court for Injunction Restraining Enforcement of Suspension. Twenty-five owner-drivers of the | Columbia Cab Association, whose taxi- | cabs were barred from the streets | | Monday. petitioned the District Court | [today for an injunction restraining | | enforcement of the suspension order The plaintiffs represented the forty- odd drivers of the association against | | whom service was not obtained in the | | Municipal Court suit which formed the +basis of the suspension order | | Last June 11 George McNeil, 1464 | T street, obtained a $350 judgment | against eight Columbia Cab Associa- jtion drivers in a personal injury suit. | The Municipal Court suit named as defendants 15 drivers and ‘“others trading as the Columbia Cab AssoCi- | ation.” Service was obtained. how- ever, only on eight and the judgment entered against that number. Proceeding on the theory that all members of the cab association were responsible for the judgment. which had not been satisfied, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer ordered sus- pension ef permits and license plates for all 52 cabs in the association un- der authority of the motor vehicle responsibility law. The twenty-five drivers who sough* an injunction today admitted that Van Duzer acted within his authority in suspending operation of cabs of the eight drivers against whom the Municipal Court judgment was given, but contended his action against drivers not named in the judgment was 1llegal. Attorney Byron G. Carson, repre- senting the 25 drivers, assured the court that the eight named in the judgment already have surrendered their tags and permits and are arranging to pay the Municipal Court and post $11,000 surety bond each in conformance with the motor vehicle responsibility law. He pointed out that if the suspen- sion order is enforced against the re- maining drivers of the association, they will also have to post similar in- surance bonds, which will prevent them from competing successfully with drivers of the other cab associations. The attorney asked a temporary re- straining order, a preliminary injunc- tion and a permanent injunction. Badges Changed CAPITOL POLICE SPORT NEW INSIGNIA. | Paul D. Vermette, doorman of the Senate Office Building, examines one of the new badges just issued to Capitol police. The new badges will display numbers on both cap “Collegiate Shag” Very Lates For the Ball Room “Maestro’ Bernie Sager, New York dance master, Demonstrates Neww Hop for Conven- tion of Ball Room Teachers. The *“collegiate shag"” is the very latest step in ball room fox trot danc- | ing, according to Bernie Sager of | New York, one of the ball room in- structors at the dancing masters annual convention at the Mayflower this week | The collegiate shag has been de- | veloped for the boys and girls who are accustomed to the Westchester or “dip"” style of dancing and have found it hard to dance to “swing" tunes like “Christopher Columbus” and “The | Merry-go-round Goes Round,” Sager explained | The shag is based on a short leap | from one foot to the other and hopping on one foot and then the other. When done by the short. mustached New | Yorker and his partner, it is a thing | of beauty and a joy forever, but his enthusiastic pupils looked more like Mexican jumping beans. Applause Shows Approval. ‘ “Do you like it?” Sager inquired | after an exhibition. Did they? The | applause was deafening. The white-coated dance master also gave a lesson in the so-called “Pea- | body"” dance which he sayvs is appro. priate for such pieces as “Tiger Rag." This, he said, however, is not a new | | dance | And girls, don't let the boys use | this 'round the waist grip. Sager said | the correct position of the right arm | is just under the shoulder blade, | provided the girl knows the steps you | are dancing. In teaching, it is some | times advisable to shift the arm so | as to convey the step to the girl in the | strongest way. | The waltz is unpopular with youth | because most of the leading orchestras | don't play that type of music, in the New Yorker's opinion. If the bands went in for waltzes and young folk realized they needed the step in their | it’s terrible. | that most men won't repertoire, the different, he said. The trouble with the average man's dancing is that he only half learns steps and concentrates on their exe- situation would be | cution, completely indifferent to tempo of the music, in Sager’s opinion “The result is the step isn't only executed, it's measured.” he explained. “The man steps on the girl’s toes and And the funny thing is take lessons. They're too self-conscious or some- thing." Sager admitted that steps are nec- essary only as a foundation to a man with rhythm. Any one with a funda- mental knowledge of the tango or fox trot step can dance to any tango or fox trot tempo with practically any step, he declared Notes on the convention in general reveal that the teachers believe a day will women's feet, and vice versa, and that people in love dance better than peo- ple who aren't. Pigeons Carry Suit Orders. A man in one of the equipment booths outside the ball room is adver- tising that all orders for his scanty dancing suits are rushed to the manu- factuer by carrier pigeon. “And delivered by pigeons, aske® a pretty prospect “No. lady,” he said. thin these costumes are? want the pigeons to do some work?” The most perplexed man at the session was an agent from a sight- seeing company trying to drum up some business among the delegates. “What's your business here?" barked he man at the door “Sight-seeing,” was reply. “Just as I thought,” said the guard. “Get out.” “You see how the innocent COLLINS MEASURE HAILED BY SULTAN “May_Be Answer to All Our Troubles” on Sewage, He Thinks. The Collins bill to empower the Commissioners to regulate the amount of sewage from industrial plants “may be the answer to all our troubles;” Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan declared yesterday, as efforts to dis- courage construction of the proposed Adolf Gobel Co. slaughter house in the Benning area were resumed. The Commissioners directed John B. Gordon, director of sanitary engi- neering for the __District, to make an immediate survey and determine how much industrial waste would de- velop from operation of the proposed slaughter house. The Collins bill would make it un- lawful for an industrial plant to dis- charge waste matter into the sewage system in excess of 30,000,000 gallons a year without permission of the Commissioners. The city heads would be empowered to permit an excess discharge “upon reasonable terms and conditions.” Col. Sultan said he believed such a law would enable the Commissioners to levy taxes so heavy they might dis- courage construction of a slaughter house within the city limits. At their board meeting the Com- missioners discussed a letter from Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who suggested that the Gobel firm might be made to pay its btden of any additional costs necessary to treat ts sewage in a manner to prevent pol- lution of the Potomac River. The new sewage disposal plant is not equipped to handle waste from a slaughter house, the Secretary pointed out in a strongly worded letter urg- ing the Commissioners to take stern action. Secretary Ickes will be informed, and blouse and make it eas- ier for visitors to identify va- rious officers. The new badges are made of German silver and have the Capitol in the center—Underwood & Under wood Photo. 2 the Commissioners said, that they are doing everything in their power to discourage construction of the slaugh- ter house. A copy of the Collins bill was re- ferred to Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal, I [7GUARD OFFIGERS WIN PAY DISPUTE $2,500 Due for Camp Duty Ordered Disbursed by Controller General. Thirteen District National Guard officers who filed suit last week in District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia to collect $2,500 due them for Summer camp duty will be paid the money immedi- ately under a ruling yesterday by the controller general. All of the officers recently had been promoted but had not received their commissions. Maj. James R. Lusby, Guard disbursing officer, took the posi- tion they might not be entitled to any pay because their former commissions had been vacated and the new ones had not become effective. With this possibility in mind he held up the money pending a ruling from the General Accounting Office. Four officers who did not file suit will receive their pay as well as those whose names appeared on the court petition. The 17 officers are: Lieut. Col. Walter W. Burns, Maj. Le Roy 8. Mann, Capts. James F. Angier and Anthony B. C. Graves, First Lieuts. James H. Heiser, Au- gustus C. Johnson, Theodore W. Low- rie Robert J. Martin, Wilmer Kemper, Lawrence Linderer and Herbert F. Mitchell and Second Lieuts. Charles R. Heig, John A. Bartelt, Charles P. Reichel, George V. Selwin, Park F. Anderson and Norwood 8. Sothoron. If the men are paid the money it is expected the sult will be dismissed. MERIT ABUSE HIT Scoring Congress for continually ex- empting new positions from ciyil serv- ice, H. Eliot Kaplan, executive secre- tary of the National Civil Service Re- form League, today said in a statement that the public “is sick and tired” of this policy. Kaplan pointed to the pending labor standards and housing legislation as cases in point; recalling that they go directly counter to the plan of the President for extending c&;fl service. come when men won't step On | ghen the accident occurred. too?" | Don't you | | gates on the double-entry car had | the lift * ELEVATOR DEATH .C. WILL GET DAY NGLEST IS SEN Coroner Withholds Cermi-‘ cate After Receiving Re- port of Inspector. An elevator inspector's repo: a defective safety device probabl result of an inquest in the case James Steadman, 21, colored was crushed to death yesterd | hoon by a combination passeng freight lift in the Palace Laun plant at Ninth and H streets Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald withheld a death certificate after re- | ceiving a report on the accident from John Oehmann, District building in- spector, based on an investigation by J. M. Brown, chief elevator inspector Door Was Removed. Brown reported that a grounded | | wire allowed the ift to run, although | & door to the shaft was open. added that one of He | two collapsible en removed and was not in place “Had this gate been in place.” | Brown reported, “Steadman would | have had to open it in addition to thg biparting door.” - The collapsible | | gates have safety locks on them as an insurance against mishap should the locks on the shaft doors get out of order: Removed by Engineer. The gate, Brown reported, had been removed by the plamt engineer to | permit the loading of machinery on The elevator was inspected and approved on June 8 by a District | inspector and two days ago by an agent of the firm which installed the | lift, Brown reported. Brown stated that if the elevator had been in proper operating condition | at the time of the accident the car | would have stopped when the col- | lapsible gate was opened even while | the lock on the outer door was out of | order. At the same time Harry S. Wender, attorney for the International Union of Elevator Constructors, called atten- tion to the ‘*necessity for having freight elevators comply with passen- ger elevators” as to safety equipment. Sang Hymns and Prayed. Steadman sang hymns and prayed yesterday for more than half an hour while firemen and plant me- | chanics jacked the elevator car away | from the shaft in order to free his body, which was wedged into a 5-inch | space. The youth died shortly after he was taken from the elevator, retain- ing consciousness almost to the end. A physician from Emergency Hospital administered narcotics while the res- cue was in progress. In a letter to Coroner MacDonald | ‘Wencer charged that the removal of | the collapsible gate was responsible for Stedman'’s death. “This gate had been installed as part of the original equipment, al- though it is conceded that present regulations do not require more than one collapsible car gate where the car is open on two sides, as was true in this case.” The semi-automatic elevator is op- erated by any of several helpers. Steadman, it was said, presumably boarded the car while it was in mo- | tion. Wender held that the District should require double doors with safety stops on each as an added insurance against accidents on freight elevators, WOULD BAR AMERICANS FROM FIGHTING ABROAD By the Associated Press. Two members of Congress demand- | ed yesterday that Americans be pre- vented from fighting in Spain and China. Representative Phillips, Democrat, of Connecticut cited a Federsl law prohibiting such enlistments for for- elgn hostilities. “It is time for authorities to take | steps to prevent further enlistments,” he said. Representative Fish, Republican, of | New York, ranking minority member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, voiced & similar view and demanded that the United States withdraw “our 10 gunboats and 2,500 armed men from China.” He said it costs $10,000,000 an- nually to maintain forces there “for no good reason.” N on the House calendar, and no more | Washington and to require such ve- [ of a group health clinic for the 2 | Washington employes of the Federal Health Service, With Staff of 15, to Open September 1 for 2,000 Workers. COST TO EMPLOYES i SET AT $2.20 A MONTH Plan May Be Step Into Field of Socialized Medicine for All in Federal Employ. A special fact-finding committee of the Medical Association of the District of Columbia has been named vestigate the nature and implicatior to in= 0 Home Loan Bank Board which will be opened about September 1 in the 1300 block of I street With a staff of 15, including six or seven physicians, the clinic will be in a position to give practically complets health service. Contracts are being negotiated with local hospitals for hospitalization facilities The complete service, acro: to present plans, will be availa Wy employe of the agency for $220 a ng INHOUSE MONDAY May Be Last This Session. “Must” Legislation Sidetracked. 12 rapidly toward & House will sid d- 5f mu national leg- lation Monday e District what may be its last legislative day of the present session to ed Chair- rict eseen de- e program man Palmisano of the D mittee that only an unf velopment in the legisl | for the remainder of the session would prevent consideration of local legis- lation now ready for action Three D. C. Bills on Calendar. There are only three District bills are likely to be added unless an emergency arises, because the District Committee has called off all regularly scheduled meetings for the remainder of the session, The principal bill revamp and modernize adoption pro- cedure—legislation initiated by Dis- trict welfare agencies and supported is intended to | by the Council of Social Agencies and | the Juvenile Protective Association One effect of the measure would be to eliminate present quick adoption procedures and to prevent adoptions without proper investigation. Under its provisions the ¢ to be adopted must live in the home of its pro- spective parents for at least six months before petition for adoption is filed with the court. Liquor Act Amendment. Another bill is designed to liberalize and alter the liquor control act. This measure has three major provisions: 1. To permit the sale of hard liquor by the drink over bona fide lunch counters along with beer and light wines. 2. To stop the direct-to-consumer flow of tax-free liquor into the Dis- trict from New York. 3. To vest in the courts rather than the Commissioners authority to re- view decisions of the Alcohol Beverage Control Board. Palmisano is anxious to have the House pass the liquor bill before ad- Jjournment, as well as one to strength- en existing law regarding adoptions. The third bill, which would give the Commissioners authority to license and control barbers, rests at the bot- tom of the calendar, although it was reported out of the committee several months ago. Palmisano said there is considerable opposition to this meas- ure, and it may not be passed even if he calls it up for consideration. The House, however, passed a com- panion bill several months ago—one designed to regulate and control beau- ty parlors. Palmisano called off all future scheduled meetings of his commit- tee, confident the House, in its rush for adjournment, would not take time to consider District legislation. Lead- ers, however, agreed to permit him to caly up the three remaining bills on the calendar Monday because he relinquished the last District day, July 26, at their request. The three meas- ures, Palmisano believes, can be dis- posed of in an hour or two, so that action on them would not seriously interfere with any plans the leaders might have for consideration of im- portant national legislation. TAXI BILL HEARINGS " SET FOR MONDAY Regulation of Vehicles Here to! Be Discussed by Senate Subcommittee. Hearings will be held at 10:30 am Monday by a Senate subcommittee in the District Committee room on bills to regulate the number of taxicabs in | hicles to carry insurance. In announcing the hearings today, Senator Tydings of Maryland. sub- committee chairman, requested the supporters and opponents to designate spokesmen to speak for various groups s0 that the hearings may be com- pleted as quickly as possible. The insurance measure has already Com- | | month and to members of the emp! | family for $3.30 a month The possible implication of the posed set-up, it was learned were placed before Washington p cians at a special me clety a few days ago. Wi | Society's officials say tha | make no statement before | details of the proposed been announced. the plan as i been explained to them may be a po= tentially long step into the field o cialized medicine for all Gove: emploves It is proposed to esta h the serve ice under direction of a corporation Rederal Home Loan Bank Board em- | ploves. The staff of the clinic will be | employes of the corporation. Organ- ized. medicine in the past has been | firmly opposed to such arrangements, | or to any system of health insurance in which the patient has not complete | liberty to select his own physician The plans at present contemplate a | service only for workers in this one | Government agencv. Under the terms | of the charter, members of the Med- fcal Society committee say, there | seems to be no bar to the admission of any Federal employe, whether is intended or not. The physicians also are concerned over the possibile | ity of such set-ups in all the Gove ernment departments, which would strike a tremendous blow at private | medical practice in Washington. Committee members last night stressed that the local medical so- | clety does not wish to stand in the | way of any plan which will provide | cheaper, and at the same time effi- cient medical service to average in- come groups. but they stress that such a set-up as the one proposed may result in the opposite situ- ation. | The corporation is headed by W. | P. Penniman, one of the Federal | Home Loan Bank Board directors | Complete details will be announced in a few days. pro- o is |“SHELTER BELT" WORK PROGRESSING SLOWLY Two Per Cent of Acreage U. S. Set Out to Develop Now Planted to Trees. | By the Associated Press. | About 2 per cent of the acreage | which the Government set out to de- velop into “shelter belts" three years |ago actually has been planted to trees, Forest Service records showed yesterday. | E. W. Tinker, assistant chief of the Forest, Service in charge of the project, said a “pitifully small beginning" has ’MPH made. He added the task is too big for the Government alone and requires the co-operation of farmers. The program, which was known as | the Great Plains sheiter belt project | when President Roosevelt allocated $15.000.000 of relief funds for it in July, 1934, now is named the Prairie States forestry project BAND CONCERTS By the Marine Band at the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santel- mann, assistant. Program. Marines’ Hymn Grand march, “The Conquerors.” Drumm Escape From the TION” oonacooanaee Mozart, Cornet solo, “King Carnival”..__Kryl Robert De Hart. Tone poem, “Finlandia”_____Sibelius (a) “Flight of the Bumble Bee.” Rimsky-Korsakow (b) Chanson Negre, “La Bananier,” Gottschalk Grand scenes from “La Tosca,” Puceint Baritone solo, “Thoughts of Gold,"” De Luca Overture, John Burroughs. Fantasy, “Lorelei”.. ---Catalani Overture, “Tannhauser”._____Wagner “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Navy Band in the bandstand at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant. Overture, “Il Guarany".._. Descriptive, “In a Bird Store”. Solo for trombone, *Atlantic Zephyrs” s Clarence Edwards Suite from “Carmen”.. 1, Prelude; 2, Intermezzo; 3, Dra= goons of Alcala: 4, Danse Boheme. Valse, “Tales of Vienna Woods,"” Strauss Suite, “Scenes Pittoresque”__Massenet 1, Marche; 2, Air de Ballet; 3, An- gelus; 4, Fete Boheme. Selections from “Sweethearts”_Herbert Xylophone solo, “Log Cabin Blues,” passed the House, but the other bill still requires mio&by both branches. Rhapsodie, “Espana”. “The Btar Srnlled Banner.”