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DRIVERS' PERMIT - REVOCATIONLAWIS UPHELD IN APPEAL Delegation of Legislative Power Declared Not Improper. GRONER GIVES DECISION IN A. M. LA FOREST CASE Stephen Presents Dissenting Opinion, Declaring Authority to Revoke Unconstitutional. Constitutionality of a law empow- ering District officials to revoke or suspend automobile drivers’ permits for traffic law violations was upheld today by the United States Court of Appeals. The validity of the statute, which gtates, “The Commissioners or their designated agents may, with or with- out a prior hearing, revoke or suspend an operator's permit for any cause | which they or their agents may deem sufficient.” was questioned five times last Winter. In all cases, however, except the appeal of Alfred M. La Forest, the court refused to consider the question Attorneys for La Forest contended the act was invalid because it vested legislative power and unregulmed dis- cretion in administrative officers. Opinion Written by Groner. In an opinion written by Associate Justice D. Lawrence Groner, the ap- | pellate court heid this position could not be sustained “The District of Columbia is A mu- nicipality, and in one form or another has exercised a large degree of self- government from the beginning.” Jus- | tice Groner wrote. “Its supreme legislative body is Congress, and Con- gress from early times has repeated lodged subordinate legislative powe! in the municipality. * * * In the very nature of things CO\ngress could not anticipate and legisfate in relation to the innumerable regulations and changes in regulations necessary to accomplish safety of life and limb on the highways of the District of Co- lumbia.” The opinion stated that the section | of the traffic act providing that officials might revoke permits “for any cause they may deem sufficient” should be construed in the light of another sec- | All set to neutralize the effects of a burning sun. Mrs. Henry Gray, New York social registerite, arrives to spend a day at Bailey's Beach. he WASHINGTON, D. C., Here is Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, prominent society woman and owner of the race horse Cavalcade, at the same Newport resort. 51000 OBTAINED N 24 ROBBERES D. C. Couple Reports Theft | of Gems Worth $1,000 at Beach Cottage. tion which empowers the Commission- ers to make and enforce “usual and | reasonable” traffic rules and regula- | tions and to make like regulations in regard to issuance and revocation of | permits. “So read and considered, section 13A (the part of the law questioned), | permits a revocation or suspension | only in eases where there is shown to | be a breach of the usual and reason- | able regulations made concerning the | control of traffic,” | Justice Groner | wrote. | The court pointed out that there | was no charge that the Commis- | eioners adopted unreasonable regula- | tions or that they had acted arbitrarily or capriciously, Stephens Dissents. In & dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Harold M. Stephens said the two sections of the act construed to- | gether in the majority opinion had no§ relation to each other. He said he ! thought it “unquestionable” that the section concerned was an unconstitu- | tional delegation of legislative power | since it set up no standards to guide | the Commissioners or their agents in revoking permits other than their | personal judgment. La Forest was arrested in January, | 1936, on a speeding charge. He pleaded guilty in Police Court and paid a small | fine andia few weeks later was notified by the Board of Revocations and Res- | torations of Operators'’ Permits that | his permit had been suspended for 15 days. According to the procedure outlined | in the traffic act, he appealed from | this decision to the District Commis- gioners, who referred the appeal back to the board for formal hearing. There was a hearing, and the board adhered to its former ruling, which the Com- missioners then affirmed. La Forest then applied to the Court of Appeals for a review, which also is provided for by the traffic act. Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal and his assistants, Vernon E. West and James W. Lauderdale, represented the Commissioners. IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED | AT TUBERCULAR CAMP Association No Longer to Accom- modate Additional Children Will Use Funds for Equipment. ‘With its health camp for tubercular ¢hildren already filled to capacity as 8 result of donations from generous ‘Washingtonians, the District Tubercu- losis Association today reported re- ceipt of additional contributions, which will be used to improve living eonditions at the camp. A total of $231, including $25 sent The Star and forwarded to the asso- ¢eiation, has been received since the eamp was filled with 125 children Pri- day, Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the organization, said. Many of the late contributors, she added, asked that the money be used for some other good purpose if there Was not room for another child at the camp. Mrs. Grant explained that the camp ‘was outfitted at its opening, on July 6, with only base essentials, and said the extra money would be used to pro- vide additional facilities that had been badly needed. A = Gypsy Brings Grief. CHICAGO (#).—Mrs. Alice Regan’s grief over being left a widow with three children was doubled after a visit by a gypsy fortune teller who promised she could restore happiness to the woman's life. Mrs. Regan told police she removed $500 savings from & bank and tied it in a stocking around her waist as instructed by the §ypsy woman. The fortune teller said her "‘wuch" would “charm” away the grief. Ten days later Mrs. Regan looked Washington residents were robbed of more than $1,000 in goods and cash—of which $11 was recovered by quick action of radio scout cars—in 24 hold - ups, h ou sebreakings and other thefts reported to po- lice yesterday and last night. Meanwhile, Dr. and Mrs. Marion W. Falls, of 4000 Cathedral ave- nue, reported theft of $1.000 in jewelry from their room in a cottage at Virginia Beach yesterday, while * they were at Iunch preparatory to returning home after a two-week vacation there. Virginia Beach po- lice said it was the twelfth robbery there under similar ecircumstances. The thief gained entrance to the cottage by telling the maid that Dr. Falls had sent him for something in his room, One of the local robbery victims— Jesse H. Arnold, 58, of 2715 South Dakota avenue northeast—may have received a fractured skull when struck on ‘the back of the head with a pick by a colored man whom he surprised ransacking the home of his sister- in-law, Mrs. Harry L. Flemer, who was out of town. Arnold crossed the street to Mrs. Flemer's residence at 2714 South Da- kota avenue northeast to open the windows after the thunderstorm late yesterday. The prowler ordered him to hold up his hands, rummaged through his pockets and then slugged him with the pick. Arnold collapsed after staggering back to his home and later was taken to Garfield Hospital. The unidentified assailant escaped, apparently without obtaining any loot. Two youths from La Fayette, Ga., were held at the twelfth precinct as wit- nesses. They said they had talked to Arnold’s assailant shortly before the attack. Other victims reported loss of money and’ goods amounting to $652.16, in addition to several losses on which no definite value was set. The $11 recovered was taken from Charles J. McGrail, 29, of 123 Fourth street northeast by three colored men who held him up as he was walking in the 200 block of F street. Police scout cars from the first precinct shortly afterward arrested two colored youths who allegedly admitted the robbery and had $11 in their posses- sion. The third man escaped. Jesse H. Arnold. northeast, was robbed of $65 late yes- terday by two white men with whom he left a restaurant in the 200 block of H street northeast. After riding a short distance in, his car they slugged him with their fists and ran off with the money. Police arrested one of the men shortly afterward and said the identity of the second man was known. Ida Goodman, 45, of 1916 Seven- teenth street, was held up and robbed of a handbag containing $75 by two colored men who accosted her as she got out of a taxi in front of her home early yesterday. y Raymond Elliott, clerk in a drug store at 1250 Twenty-second street, reported that two colored men held him up last night and escaped with $31 from the cash register. James I Benjamin, 37, of 1104 Trinidad place northeast, reported that while he was parked on New York avenue at West Virginia avenue north- east last night a colored man robbed him at pistol point of $2.50 and ran off into the woods. Robbers were unsuccessful in at- tempting to open the safe in & jewelry store at 1140 Seventh street, owned by Symuel Solomon, which they entered by jimmying & rear window, but escaped with half a dozen in the stocking. She found only a roll of brown wrapping paper. o watches and several watch chains and straps. Fred F. Warner, 1646 Gales street | POLIGE TRIAL UNT DFCITZENSASKED Gardiner Says Indepen}ient Board Would Help Offi- cers’ Morale. Establishment of a civilian police | trial board, entirely independent of the Police Department, was urged toda by W Gwynn Gardiner, former District | Commissioner, at a hearing before a | special subcommittee of the House District Committee on bills authoriz- | ing the Commissioners to restore four | | dismissed policemen to duty. Gardiner is representing two of the former offi- cers. Gardiner said he first proposed the plan of an independent trial board | while he was a Commissioner and ex- | pressed the belief it would prevent de- struction ot morale in the Police De- | partment, which is possible under the | present set-up if the Commissioners | overrule the findings of a trial board mfade up entirely of police officials. Representative Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts questioned the wis- | dom of Congress enacting legislation Fashionable society folk at MONDAY, bening Stae WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION AUGUST 9, 1 the International College tennis tournament at Newpor. were Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Vanderbilt. - Fourth Killed When Car Turn: Three Die, 21 Hurt in Sumlav . Traffic Accide ntsin D.C. Area QOver Four Times Near Abingdon, Va.; Toll at 65. Traffic accidents in Washington and 1 neighboring territories took three lives and sent at least 21 persons to hospi- A fourth fatality oc- curred in a crash in Southwest Vir- | ginia. The death of Juanita Lee. 40, col- tals yesterday. a collision in the 2100 block of Nichols avenue southeast, triet’s traffic fatality toll to 85 for the year, 14 more than the total at this time in 1936. Another colored Washingtonian, Mrs. Nancy Johnson, 24, of the first | block of Quincy place. was instantly | killed in an auto-truck crash near Cul- peper, Va Clarkson MacIntosh, 27, of Manas- sas, Va., an automobile mechanic, was fatally hurt in a two-car, head-on collision on the Manassas-Dumfries road 8 miles south of his home. Wytheville Woman Dies. The fourth victim was Mrs. Lonnie | Corvin, 33, of Wytheville, Va,, killed when the car in which she was riding | wrecked on a curve near Abingdon. ored, of 1801 Seventh street, killed in | brought the Dis-| struck the rear of another machine. According to police, she was riding with Mahlen Ellis, 34, colored, an | ambulance driver for Casualty Hos- pital, whose car struck an automobile operated by Cornelius Tucker, 37, of | East Falls Church, Va. She was pro- | nounced dead at Casualty Hospital. Mrs. Johnson, the other colored woman killed in yesterday's crashes was riding with Norris Reaves, also of Washington, according to police a: quoted in an Associated Press dispatch. Her body was taken to Reaguer's un- dertaking establishment in Culpeper. | Two Washingtonians were injured in an accident on the Rockville-Fred- erick road, near Rockville, Md., when |their machine struck a tree as it |rounded a curve. James K. Hughes, 31, of 1731 K street, driver by police, suffered head cuts, ichest injuries and shock, while Lois Elaine Cheverlange, 18, of 627 Mary- {land avenue southwest, received a pos- |sible fractured arm, head cuts and | shock. Both were treated at George- | town Hospital Atlantans Hit Truck. Irma R. Abbott, 33, of 15 Longfellow ! directing the Commissioners to restore Ve. Her husband, mother, sister and street northeast, and Robert Norton, | dismissed policemen to duty. While | the pending bills merely authorize the | Commissioners to reappoint the four | former officers, Gardiner told the sub- | committee he believed the legislation should direct the reappointment to as- | sure the men of reinstatement. “It would be dangerous legislation to make it mandatory on the Commis- sioners to reinstate dismissed police- men.” said Bates. “Such legislation might subject the whole department | to political pressure.” Bates argued there should be a judi- cial review of the Police Trial Board cases by the Police Court or some other legal agency, rather than enactment of legislation which would compel the | Commissioners to reinstate the four | men. The four former officers who are seeking restoration to duty through special legislation ‘Thompson, Ralph 8. Warner, James | F. Day and Amos B. Cole. | CONSTITUTION FETE PLANS WILL BE MADE Celebration of 150th Anniversary of Signing to Be Launched September 17. Preliminary plans for the District's initial celebration of the 150th an- niversary of the signing and ratifica- tion of the Constitution and of the inauguration of George Washington will be made at a meeting of civic | Hazen at 11 a.m, Thursday. The celebration will be launched here September 17, with a concert on the Ellipse, Hazen said. Among those invited to attend the meeting Thurs- day are Dr. W. L. Darby, Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Robert V. Fleming, Edward F. Col- laday, Arno Cammerer, Lewis R. Bar- rett, Mrs. Maud Howell Smith, Riley E. Elgen, Thomas E, Lodge, Woolsey W. Hall, Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, Ad- miral William Leahy, Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, Dr. George C. | Havenner, Mrs. Marie M. Forrest and | Mrs. Lloyd W. Biddle. FOUR ARE ARRESTED FOR LIQUOR VIOLATION Four persons were arrested by the vice squad over the week end on charges of violating the liquor laws. Mrs. Mary Davis, 57, of the 600 block of H street, and her son Bennie, 24, were arrested early yesterday and charged with selling liquor without & license, keeping liquor for sale and keeping liquor without a District tax stamp. Samuel Jackson, colored, 40, and his wife Annie, 2500 block of Alabama avenue southeast, were booked on charges of selling liquor without a license, keeping liquor for sale and disorderly eonduct. are David R.| | leaders in the office of Commissioner | four children were injured. ! ginia and a fifth at Fredericksburg. | A 16-year-old girl and her fiance seriously injured when the motorcycle | they were riding struck an automobile near Fredericksburg. | _ Macintosh died shortly after he was pinned under an autmobile overturned | | in the accident near Manassas. Rich- ard H. Wheaton, 21, also of Manassas, named as the driver of the car in | which Macintosh was riding, was un- | h urt. He was charged with untary manslaughter and under $2.000 bond, according to Trial Justice William H. Brown. The driver of the other car was Merlin Reed, 19. of New Windsor, Md, who also escaped injury and was released under $500 bond on a | reckless driving charge, Judge Brown | said. invol- | Mother Critically Hurt. | According to an Associated Press dispatch, Mrs. Corvin died of & frac- tured skull in George Ben Johnston Hospital at Abingdon yesterday morn- ing, four hours after the accident. Lonnie Corvin, 34, her husband, who is an ambulance driver for a Wythe- ville undertaking establishmeht, suf- fered a fractured skull and deep scalp lacerations. Physicians said his con- dition was critical. Also critically injured was Mrs. John Bastwood, 55, mother of the dead woman, who received a possible skull fracture. She was thrown some 50 feet from the demolished machine. Chest injuries, shock, possible rib fractures and extensive knee lacera- tions were suffered by Miss Eleanor | Bastwood, 18-year-old sister of Mrs. | Corvin. Most seriously hurt of the children was Doris Corvin, 5, who received scalp and face lacerations. Physicians said the condition of Char- line, 10; Fay, 8, and Preston, 9 months old, was “satisfactory.” The machine was wrecked when it failed to negotiate the turn, struck some guard posts and overturned four times. Motor Cycle Kills Girl. Margie Mae Welty, attractive 16- year-old Fredericksburg girl, who was to have been married on August 20, was fatally injured last night when a motor cycle on which she was riding, driven by her fiance, crashed into the rear of an automobile 5 miles north of here on the Washington highway. Miss Welty was taken to Mary Wash- ington Hospital, where she died 30 minutes later of a skull fracture. She suffered numerous broken bones and internal injuries. Her flance, Henry Cudler, 21, United States Marine Corps, stationed at Quantico, was badly hurt. He was removed to the Marine Base Hospital at Quantico. The couple had gone for a ride, with Miss Welty riding in the tandem seat, when the motor cycle, in trying to pass an automobile, suddenly swerved into the rear of the car. Hits Rear of Machine. The Lee woman was fatally hurt when the ear in which she was riding released | 76, of 6100 Sligo Mill road northeast, | were injured, neither seriously, in a |collision at Second and Kennedy streets. Police charged the woman with reckless driving and she posted $100 collateral. Both victims were treated for minor injuries at Walter Reed Hospital. | Irving S. Nathan, 26, and Joel | Sheed, 31, both of Atlanta, Ga., were seriously injured last night when their car crashed into a truck on the Richmond Highway, 2 miles south of Alexandria. Nathan was treated for a possible crushed chest at Alexandria Hospital, while his companion re- ceived severe lacerations of the nose, eye and knee. Two Washington colored youths, John Thomas, 16, of 70 Maryland avenue southeast and Leonard Small- wood, 17, colored, of 1226 First street southwest, were injured when struck | by a hit-run driver near Clinton, Md. Thomas was treated at Gallinger | Hospital for a fractured skull, possible | internal injuries and extensive lacer- ations. His condition was called criti- cal. Smallwood was also treated at Gallinger for lacerations. Taxi Hits Child. 1208%; N street received extensive abrasions when he was struck by a taxicab in front of his home. He was treated at Children’s Hospital, where physicians said his condition was not serious. Five colored persons were hurt in an accident on Arlington Ridge road in nearby Virginia early yesterday. They are Earl Miller, 24, 210 S street, suffering a fractured leg; Lillian Mil- ler, 27, same address, leg lacerations; Gertrude Hopkins, 27. first block of Sixth street, lacerations; Lamar Simms, 21, 800 block of Columbia road, minor cuts, and Cecil Garling- ton, 21, 1841 Vernon street, possible skull fracture. All were treated at Emergency Hospital. named as the | Three-year-old Frank A. Hall of | 937. Glimpses of Society Folk Summering at Resorts Near Newport Mrs. John R. Fell shown as she visited Bailey's Beach. Killed in Crash GILBERT YOUNG. 0. MANAMONG 5 HILLED N CRAGH Gilbert Young, 64, of Geo- logical Survey Victim of Auto Collision. Gilbert Young, 64, of 4410 Four- | teenth street, employed in the Geo-| | logical Survey for 35 years, was among | | five persons killed last night in an | automobile accident north of Rome, | N. Y., the Associated Press reported. | The others Killed were Miss Gladys | M. Briggs, 44, of Boonville, N. Y. | | Young's sister-in-law, Washington in 1935; Charles Jenks, 65, retired Boonville banker; Edwin | Miller, 3, and his brother, Clarence, | 13, of Canton, N. Y. | Three others critically injured in | | the mishap were Mrs. Jenks, 63: Miss | Ethel Mettot, 17, of Canton, and Jesse John Miller, 23, Utica, N. Y. Young, Miss Briggs and Mr. and Mrs. Jenks were riding in a heavy sedan, according to Coroner Thomas A. Cox of Rome, and collided head-on with a light coupe, driven by Jesse John Miller, a cousin of the dead boys. Jenks and Miss Briggs died in- stantly, the coroner said, while the other three died later at the Rome | hospital. Young, who has been deaf since he was 4, was a graduate of Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y., and first joined the Geo- logical Survey in December, 1902. He had gone to Boonville last July 31 to spend his vacation with rela- tives of his wife, who died in 1935. He was connected with the topo- graphic branch of the Geological Survey. Blue Crab Captured. | LEONARDTOWN, Md., August 9| (#)—Dr J. H. T. Barber of Wash- ington captured a crab which was en- tirely blue in color while crabbing in front of his Summer cotsage near here. Dr. Barber planned to take the crab to the Marine Laboratory in Washing- ton. By the Associated Press. ‘The Government is asking for bids on five aged employes—a quintet of old gray steeds that admittedly aren't what they used to be. On form No. 215, Surplus Property Bid Sale No. 269, which is a pretty lengthy document, they are described as: “Gray gelding, approximate age 20 years, weight about 900 pounds, tender- footed and weak in joints. Fair condi- tion. ‘Name Pewee. A mule. “Gray gelding, approximate age 18 years, weight about 1,100 pounds, weak tendon in left hind limb causing mule to drag leg. Fair condition. Name Dick.” A third mule, also & gray gelding, is about 18 years old, weighs 1,100 T Five Aged Federal Employes To Go—Horrors!—On Block + pounds, is windbroken, condition fair and named Charlie. No. 4 is a gray gelding horse and is named Bootlegger. The age is ap- proximately 20, weight about 800 and condition described as fair. Boot- legger must be an odd horse, for the Government adds, “Too fast for ordi- nary farm work.” The fifth, s bay gelding horse named Je, is 21, weighs 1,200 pounds and has tender feet. ‘“Becomes lame,” reads the Federal description, “when used regularly. Condition good Sealed bids will be received until 10 a.m. Thursday and then the quin- tet will go to the highest bidders. There is no romantic background behind, Dick, Charlie, Bootlegger, Joe and Pewee. They've spent most of | have no unsatisfied judgments. their lives at the National Training Echool. PS L1 L | | | Weightman Society and General PAGE B—1 FIREPROOF SCHOOL SPACE SOUGHT FOR CRIPPLED PUPILS Haycock and Crane Plan to Discontinue Weightman and Magruder Use. TRANSPORT PROBLEM STUDIED BY OFFICIALS | Crowding of Downtown Buildings and Distance to Newer Edi- fices Are Handicaps. District school officials today were | attempting to arrange to provide spare in a fireproof building for crippled pupils whose old quarters in tna ard Magruder Schools have been condemned by fire departe ment inspectors as “unsuited for tais class of occupancy.” The problem is complicated by al- ready over-crowded conditions in close-in modern buildings and the difficulties in transporting the crip- pled children long distances to newsr schools in suburban areas, First sistant Supt. of Schools Robert L. Havcock said Haycock and Jere J. Crane, first assistant superintendent directly :r charge of school building affairs, hooe Miss Marguerite Crolius of South Orange, N. J., strolling down the boardwalk at the Dunes Club, society resort at Narraganset Pier—A. P. and Wide World Photos. INURANCE SEEN RASIG TAYIRATE Tydings Backed by Drivers | in View—Posting of Cash Sum Instead. Compuisory liability insurance for taxicabs in the District must be ac- companied by increased passenger rates. a Senate subcommittee was told | to complete plans for submission 1r the Board of Education early nex' month for carrying out the “emer gency” recommendation in a fire de partment inspection report that use o the Weightman and Magruder schools for crippled children be “immediatel; discontinued.” Length of Haul Important. “We afe considering many angle: of the situation.” Haycock salc “studying particularly the problems of transportation to schools where we might possibly find room for the crippled puplls. The cost of trans- portation and the length of the haul are important. We do not want to have to keep the frail, crippled chil- dren too long on busses because this would not be good for them." The School Board charters busses that take the crippled pupils to and from their homes. Many of the chil- dren are ‘carry” cases and eannot walk Haycock pointed out that practi- cally all the downtown school build- ings are old and not entirely fireproof and so would not be any more suit- | able than the Weightman and Ma- | gruder Schools for the crippled pupils Most New Schools Overcrowded. “The newer schools are in the newrr today. This ‘view was advanced by Chair- man Tydings of the subcommittee | which is holding public hearings on | | the House bill to require taxicab in- | surance and was indorsed by cab drivers and representatives of the | public, | The House bill contains a provision | permitting the posting of $75,000 in cash with the public Utilities Com- mission in lieu of insurance. , This pro- vision was favored by Attorney Ring- gold Hart, appearing for the Diamond Cab Association, who told the com- mittee the highest total of damage claims paid by his association in any | year since 1934 was approximately $68,000. “Our association pays all legitimate claims against it.” Hart said. ‘"We It we were permitted to post a security fund of $75,000, to be constantly main- tained at that level, the public would have adequate protection in so far as our cabs are concerned. It would also be much cheaper for us, which means lower fare rates, since the in- who lived in | Surance specified in the bill would | cost our association about $360,000 every three months.” Operates 1,200 Cabs. Hart explained his association op- erates about 1,200 cabs and that the insurance premium would be about $25 per month per cab. The provision authorizing the cash | indemnity fund was strenuously op- posed, however, by representatives of independent operators. They contend- ed the independent drivers would of necessity have to take out the insur- ance, at a cost to each driver of $25 & month, whereas the driver of a Diamond cab would be allowed to operate indefinitely by putting up a total of less than $75 as a member of the association. said he appreciated that this would work a hardship on independent driv- ers, but pointed out they could over- z’mz it by forming their own associa- n. Howard M. Starkey, manager of the ‘Washington office of the Association of Casualty and Surety Executives, told the committee he was in favor of the bill, but added “our experience with | taxicab Insurance has been s0 bad | that it is almost impossible to get any of the old line stock companies to write insurance on taxicabs.” Wender Testifies. Harry 8. Wender, chairman of the Safety Committee of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, told Senator Tydings the federation recognized the necessity of increasing taxicab fares to meet the cost of the insurance, but said he believed the determination of the amount of increase should be left to the Public Utilities Commission and not be fixed by Congress. The committee also has under con- sideration a bill to limit the number of taxicabs operating in the Dis- trict. He said he was personally op- posed to the measure, however, and since it has been defeated in the House it was not considered likely the Senate will act favorably on it. BAND CONCERTS By the Navy Bagd at the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant. By the Marine Band in the barracks at 8 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santel- mann, assistant. By the Army Band at the District War Memorial in West Potomac Park at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Thomas Senator Tydings | sections of the city and most of then particularly those reasonably cloe in already are overcrowded,” he addec “However, we are studying every pos- sible solution to the problem and hope to have an answer soan.” The Weightman School. at Twenty- third and M streets, and the Magruder School for colored pupils, at 1619 M street, originally were fitted out only on a makeshift basis some six years |ago to care for crippled children | who previously had no opportunity for | public schooling The School Board's projected fives vear building program calls for con= struction by 1942 of fireproof buildings | especially designed to accommodate crippled and other types of handi- capped children, one for white pupils near Children’s Hospital and one for colored pupils near Freedmen's Hos- pital. Appropriations have not been approved so far, however. May Provide Additional Ramps. If unsuccessful in finding space for the crippled pupils temporarily in | more modern buildings, officials in- dicated additional ramps may be pro- vided at the Weightman and Ma- gruder Schools to speed up evacuation in a possible emergency. Ramps are necessary for getting children in wheelchairs in and out of the build- ings. Only one ramp is now avail- | able at each building. Although con- | vinced that additional ramps would lessen the hazards, officials admitted such makeshift improvements could not take the place for safety of en- tirely fireproof structures. Wooden floors, partitians and stair- ways are major fire hazards in the Weightman and Magruder Schools, although they meet the Fire Depart- ment’s safety standards for normel | children who can walk or run to | safety without assistance in an emer- | gency. | TECHNICIANS TO OPEN DRIVE AS PART OF C. I. 0. Head of Federation Announces Plan After Conference With Lewis. By the Associated Press. ‘The Federation of Architects, Engi- neers, Chemists and Technicians an- nounced today the start of a nationa) organizational movement as part of the C. I. O. drive. Announcement was made by Presi- dent Robert M. Sentman after s conference with John L. Lewis, chair- man of the Committee for Industriai Organization. “The drive of the P. A. E. C. T." said Sentman, “is part of the national C. I. O. campaign among ‘white collar' and professional employes. The plan of the union * * * calls for con- centration in major industries where a majority of the 400.000 technica; men in this country are employed The major fields are oil, steel, ship- building, chemicals and electrical.” Field workers, Sentman said, have been sent into the New England, Mid- dle West and Pacific Coast areas, Non-Job Hunter a Novelty. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (A).— ‘They’re not all after jobs. Young John Gibler sat four hours in Gov. Lloyd C. Stark’s reception room. Finally the Governor's attention was called te him. “Have you filed your application?*® he asked. “What application?” Gibler replied “Why, aren't you looking for a job?" Stark asked. “Heck, no,” said Gibler. “I've got more work than I can get done out on P. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, sssis- tant. the farm. I just came in to get a firste hand look at the Governor.”