Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1937, Page 12

BOARD OF WELFARE SEEKS §11.349.67 FOR 1339 SERVICES Proposal Submitted to D. C. Heads Would Increase Out- lays by 62 Per Cent. ESTIMATE DOUBLES CURRENT RELIEF FUND | Total Represents $4.385.297 Boost—$1,225,000 Asked to Aid Employables. Outlays for velief doubled and all welfare by the Disu would he more fhan ihe total expendirure for services increased by per cent rnder proposais made bv the Board of Public Welfare n submiutin, the 1939 estimajes to the commissioners. 1622 I 1'ber { head stunned Mrs. | attacked. | suffered a paralytic stroks Sleeping Woma With Brick by Mrs. Halterman Loses Ring and Wrist Watch. Suspect Seized. Attacked while she slept early to- day, Mrs. Mary Halterman, 74, of street, was critically injured by a colored robber who fled with a diamond ring and a wrist watch. Armed with a large brick, the rob- entered the house through an unlocked front door about 4:30 a.m. and crept siiently into the woman's bed room. A vici®us blow across the Halterman, but she regained consciousness in time to see the robber ransacking her bureau drawers. Mrs. Malterman,, her family re- vealed, was in ill health when she was About = week ago, she Screams of the injured womaun awakened her son, Acy Halterman and his wife, and they saw the colorad man fleeing from the house. Mrs Ha'terman collapsed in her son's arms and was taken to Casualty Hos- pitai. Loss of blood and complica-~ tions of old age sggramited by her experience added to the serionsngss of The document, released ihis mora- | 1ng by Budget Officer Daniel J. Dono- van. reveals the board J8 seeking in !l $11.349,567 for the vear bezinaing next July 1, as conirasted with $6.- | 964.270 provided for the curreny year = hodst of $4,385,97 Undeterred by ihe refusal of Con- | gress and (he Budgel Burcau 1o pro- vide ihis veay ol il classed as empioyaie board asks | & new appiopriaiion of $1.225,000 for | for the rehief of such applcanis, num bered at 3.000. Increased funds are sought also Tor relief of the unem- plovahies and for the needv aZed and blind Despite ardent pieas private weliare leaders. fne Budgel Rureau last Winie: reiecied & re- quest by Commissioners for & supplemeniai appropriation of $830.- 000 for e employable cases. and congressional commitiees later re- fused an Public Roard seeks a foial $4.079.455 public assisiance or more rhan double ihe $1,876,410 provided for 'he present vea Tncreases for and persor by puplic and e 10 permit $4.079.455 The W Asstance, of expansion of facilities el are requested for vir- tially all be score of agencies and servic under tne direction of the Weifare Board. Among these are items for beginning copstruction of | & new jail, expansion of housing snd uttlities at the reformatory and work house, provision of 8 new Receiving Home for Children and construction of & number of new buildings at| the District Training School for Fee- ble-minded and other agencies. Heavy increases In ine number of guards | at the penal institutions are sought. $1,411.500 for Mare o! Unemployables. liberal appropriations were sought for all forms of public as- sistance. For reliet of unemployables and administration rhe board asks $1,411.500, figuring an average grant of $30 & month for 3.350 cases. the sverage number In ihe Jast fiscal year Foriy-four additional admin- istrative workers wonla be provided 10 Taise the 1otal 10 171 and the | salary buagel from $156,150 10 #262.636 | For oid-age assistance the hoard asks An Increase from $428.265 10 £751.730, estimating tne provanle av- | erage load next vear ar 3.500 cases. ! The total costs are figured at $1,400.- 000, with rhe Federa! sorial security granis expecied 10 pav 49 per cent, or $648.270. For ihe needv ol'nd he board asks increase from $36.645 L0 $47,475, estimatng the cese load ai 225. For The non-resident service a mew jlem | of $32.500 1= sought. This service | was conducied iast year out of bal-| snces from the old ransient reiief grants an is Acute Need Visioned. The proposed $1,225,000 for rehef of employables would carry salary items for the hire of 94 new admin- | letrative workers. The board argued | the meed for this form of reiiet was | demonsiraied in 1he past year and | #1d the siuation would become more | Acute due 10 & reduction in the W. P A. granis. Authority requested for » pew 181l 10 cost $!,500,000, and for the | firsi unit. an appropriation of $240,000 is asked for next year. This would be an administration building, a new | death house, additional cell blocks and medical examination rooms. The program also calls for construction of & walled enciosure about the whole properiy. Laier the old jail would be rebuil', using its present walls. Staff Additions Asked. To grant standard hours fo the jail &taff the board asks provision of nine new workers and two others 1o per- mit granung of the expanded an- pual leave, For the workhouse and reforma- fory the board requests 178 new em- ployes at s cost of $239,750, includ- ng 143 additional guards, 58 of whom will be needed for the opening next January of the new penitentiary divi- 8O0 in the “walled group” of cell blocks. The board asks a new item of 8454850 for beginning construction of new permanent buildings and utili- fies, including a central warehouse, #105,000; steam heat, electrical power and distributing system, $225,000, and 850,000 for a sewage disposal system having a total cost of $250,000. Other 1tems are $57,000 for continuing con- struction of the buildings and the enclosing walls of the “walled group,” $72.000 for continuing construction of buildings for the women's division, #70,000 for repairs to buildings and | grounds and $30,000 for replacement of defective wiring. For the pur- chase of a fire wagon $17.500 is asked and $3.000 for two motion picture | machines. Construction of s mnew Receiving Home for Children at & cost of $213,- 000 is proposed by the hoard as a ' reaction ro the condemnation heaped on the present home at this year's | budget hearings by members of the | House District Appropriations Sub- committee. Provision of & new site for the Industrial Home School for White Children is envisioned in a request for $5,000 for a survey of possibilities of location of the agency at the Dis- trict-owned 150-acre property at Muirkirk, Md. New Feeble-Minded School Asked. For the District Training School for Feeble-minded at Laurel, Md., the board proposes & construction pro- gram to include & new school at| $180,000, four new dormitories at | $180,000 and » sewage treatment plant at $50.000. To permit an eight-hour | day for its staff and to handle the | | Government " business, their non-union competitors no longer her injuries, physicians said. The thug hurled the brick against | a fence as he fled down an alky near the Halterman heme. Police planned 1o examine it for f{inger- prints. The robber was tall and thin and wore dark trous and a white shirt, police were told. Two envelopss containing $135 46 were reported stolen last nizht-from UNION PAINTERS HAILD.C.VETORY Labor Department Imposes Pay Scale on All Contractors.” A ‘Labor DepartmeM decision np- nolding the union contentions yess lerday signaiized viefory for District union painters in their fight to com- pel non-union contraciors' doing* Goy- ernment painting work here to abide | by union hour and wage stales. ‘I'ne decision, hailed by Brvce Hol- combe, business agent for the Paint- ers’ Union, as “ihe biggest viclory for organized labor in the District,” was made after consideration of evi- dence adduced at a hearing Jast week in connection with the recent city Wwide strise of union painters. A< a result of the decision union contraciors probably will get more inasmuch #s will be able to underbid them by pav- ing Jower wages or working their men longer hours. The controversy leading o the walk-out of union painters evolved around work being done on the new ity post office by the Counes & Raptis Co. of Brooklyn, & non-union firm The principal points ai issue were | whether moving scaffolds, srranging drop cloths and cleaning up paint spols were part of the painter’s duty or work that could be done by a laborer, and whether donble time snou'd he paid for anv hours worked in excess of a seven-hour day, five days a week. Deciding both points in favor of the union, the decision held rhe in- cidental work could not be done by lapborers, and that hereafter, unless Jocal conditions change, contractors must pay double time for any work done 1n excess of seven hours a day or on Saturdays, Sundayvs and holi~ days. The minimum pay for painiers is $1.57 1-7 per hour. The decision also ordered the Brooklyn rompany 1o pav the union rale 10 three men working on he post office job as plasterers, despite the fact thev undertook the work for a flat sum while trading as a com- pany. The department is expected next week 10 decide a case involving a demand by organized glazers for s wage increase from $1.30 10 $1.75 an hour: ASK MIN|STE‘R APOLOGIZE | BUFFALO, N. Y., August 14 (£).—A | roofers’ union, on strike, asked Rev. Walter Keeney to apologize yesterday | because, they said, he called them “radicals” in a sermon. Rev. Mr. Keeney said be delivered | his sermon after two of the marching | pickets used “vile language.” *“There will be no apology made,” he | | said increased population the board seeks 70 new employes at 8 cost of $78,050. For the Industrial Home School for Colored Children the board asks an im- provement program, including con- struction of an assembly hall and gymnasium, $61,000, and new hous- ing for 35 boys, $80,300. For its own administrative staff the board asks provision of 16 new employes, which would raise the sel- ary budget to $129,700, an increase of $31,960 For the development of a social service and the subsidizing of foster homes for children requiring emer-~ Rency care, to be used in conjunction with a small detention home, the board asks for a new item of $20,595. Ruling n, 74,Is Slugged Colo red Robber MRS.MA RY'HAI,TERLWAN_ | | the Cort al Whllpaper Co., 930 New York avepue. The manager, Bernard F. Saul, 2225 Wvoming avenue, told police® the @nonev had been taken from g desk drawer in th® front efBce. . James P. Kelda' also told police Jast pight that $50 had been sior® from & cedar chest at his home, 138 Seaton place, , which entered through a Rasement window. Silyer- Ware and Jewlrv 1o the value of $75 has been takeb fom the home of Mrs. Mary V. Beller, 10a5 E street northeast. she reported ~ ORIVERMUST FACE COURTFORDEATH YouthsHeld for Attion After “Playmates Tell Row Boy . Was SPrucks s > After nearing a i-scar-old boy iell was 0¢ seeng his avmage illed, a cord- ners 'l\n'\' deliberated nearly an .'\MH vesterday before ordering Lee, 19, of Cabin Md.. held: for " acuon of ihe Police Court under ihe irafic 6. Spencer Jobn, negligent. homicde act in the death Monday of Albert M. Tully of 5341 Forty-second street Tt was testified ihat | into the road from behind a parked |ear in the 4100 block of Military road. He died in Georgelown | bital a few hours after the accident | Playmate Tells Stors. Principal witnesses at the hearing were John (Sonny) Young, 7, of 5327 | Forty-second street, a constant com- | panion of the dead child, and Cath- | erine Anderson, 14, of 5337 Forty- second street “Albert and T had been down to & mail hox.” John told the i We | were coming back up the street. and ; we were 20ing 10 g0 across the sireet and scare some zirls with my limle puppy. Albert went first, but 1 saw | & car coming and stayed op the curh. | He went out toward the miadle of the streef, and T heard him vell Oh! when the car hit him.” Savs Albert Stumbled | The Anderson girl, who was stand- . Ing on the opposite side of ihe street | trom John and ri, testified Al- | bert. apparently saw tne car before ) struck him and seemed to stumble just before fhe impact. Both she and John said Albert. had walked car Voluntarily raking the stand, lee who had no attorney. told the jury he did not see rhe child until the moment of impaci. He said he was going “about 20 miles an hour Albert’s father. James F. Tully. ic employed in rhe claims division of the Social Security Board. WARRANT RULE ISSUED Policemen Must Norify Traffic Office of Case Records. | Al policemen were instructed by | their precinct commanders to mority the traffic records office when traffic warrants have been served or finally disposed of, regardless of whether the prossed, in orders issued Inspector 1. 1. H. Edwards. The order was issued as ihe Tesult of instances where the warrant, card had not been removed from the fles today | in motorists being questioned vertently on old charges, insd- ! NAVY MUSEUM BILL Measure Would Allow Academy Head to Accepr Gifts. Br ihe Associated Press. Senator Walsh, Democrat. of Massa- | authorizing the superintendent of the United States Naval Academy to ac- cept gifts of money for consiruction of & naval museum building on the academy grounds. Walsh said the Naval Institute. or- ganization of active and retired Navy officers, and the Navy Athletic Asso- ciation had offered to donate $50,000 !and $150,000, respectively, for the building. Welfare Agenc vy 1939 Requests Agency. Administrative offices. Child Welfare.. Jail __ . 2 £ Reformatory and Workhouse. ‘Training School for Boys. Training School for Girls. District Training School. Colored Industrial School. White Industrial School Home for Aged.. .. o Municipal Lodging House. Public Assistance Temporary Home for Former Soldiers and Saflor Crittenton Home P St. Ann’s Infant Asylum. Southern Relief Society. St. Elizabeth's Hospital._ Non-resident irsane._ Nstional Library for Blind = Columbia Polytechnic Institute_ Columbia Hospital B Burial of ex-service men_ ‘Transportation ot Indigent. Vocational Rehabilitation 1938 sppropriations. 397.740 479,500 171,500 - 1,006,040 150,000 £1.500 396,270 83,260 51,280 167.150 7.600 - 1,876,410 rs 17370 9.000 1939 estimates. $129,700 725,439 461,040 1,975,381 130,000 66,480 159,070 236,452 56,280 213,300 2,680 4,079,455 17.620 8,000 1.000 10,000 2,430,900 12,000 10.000 2,325,780 12,000 5.000 3.000 5,000 270 3,500 25,000 $6.964 270 $11.349.567 the child was ' striick by Lee's machine when he ran ! Hos- ! into the street from behind a parked | cases have been prosecuted or nolle | by | after disposition of a case. resulting | chusetts introduced yesterday a bill | LEGION PROPLSES DISTRICT BE GIVEN RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE “Some Form of Representa- tive Government and Fran- chise” Is Favored. AUDITORIUM HERE URGED AS MEMORIAL | Election of Officers and Fete Will | rl > | Close Three-Day Convention Tonight. Propofing a biz audiiorium here | s an gmerican Legion mational me- , morial, the District of Columbia de- | partment »of the legion At its nine- | teenth convention at the Mayflower | Hotél last night favored “some form of representative government and some form of parycipation in the franchise” for the National Capital. | The “three-dav convention of the | drpartment: comes ®, a close tonight |- | With election of officers from two slates nomenaied lag night, headed by Thomas Mason, jr, and Porter L. Bush, candidates for department comma ol A reception and sup- per dance will honor the newly elect- ed chief Presided over bv Harace W. Line- burg, present commandes, the Dis- trict of Codumbia legionnaires last night adoptedsa series of resolutions presenied by Gen. Amos &, Fries chairman of the Resolutions Com- mittee Debate resolution adopied noes ™ Thie swirled around for a time with only & [y resolution pdinted »ul 1hat M the District “more than half A& million inhabitanis American citizens, have no part their Gov- ernment ihe suffrage but it was few scatiered all in edy a5 Un-American.s {The ciizgns of the District of Columbia do their full @duty as®Ameri- can citiZéns,” wid the resolution, in paving Federal 1aqs over and bevond vhat of many States, in sending men 1o war and constituting a population A Many over and above that of several States. This denial io this group of citizens , Of The right of tranchise and a par- neipation in anv way in iheir gov- | worthy blemish upon our great scheme of government The cilizens of the District of Columbia and the city of Washing- ton as & municipality thus have no representation in the halls of Con- Rress, where their Jegislation 1s en- acted and their iaxes decided “A large part of the American people do not approve of this state | | of affairs and are willing, if given | an opportunity, to right this great wrong The resolurion | rommended the ef- foris of organizations and individuals Scientific work, Department of Agri- | SATURDAY AUTGUST 14. 1937 “James F., Jr.,” Joins Burro Ball Club T “James F., jr team ai Ozom Hill, Md., August background at the training camp at 2014 M street is “Mae West,” the burro's mother . owner of a domkey ball club. burro belongs fo T. W. Barrett L. M. ESTABROOK, SCIENTIST, IS DEAD Retired Agricutture Depart- ment Official, 68. Had a Distinguished Career. Leon aM Estabrook. 68 promi- nent retired Agriculture Department scientisi, died &l his home Sunov Hill Farms, Prederick, Md afier a long @oess Mi. Estabrook last was al ithe department as a conservation specialisigof The Amricultural Adjust- ment Aaministration until, October 1934, Durfog a long career he heid important positions wirth the Agriculture Department including ihe office of chief clerk a short time in 1913 He was an assistant in charge of the i0day emploved for ernment is un-American and an un- Office of seed distriburion from 1909 until 1913, After bis brief service as chief clerk .of the department in the Iatter vear he was statistician and chief of the Burean of Crop Estimates until 1921, Then he became associate chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Econom- ics. In 1923-4 he was engaged in re- organizing the agricultural department In Argentina. Directed World Census. He was director of the World Agri- culture Census, Internationa! Institute of Agriculture, in Rome. In 1930-1 he was assistant 1o the director of working loward “some form of rep- | Cullure resentative government and some form of participation in the franchise” The Districi department will seek aid of ihe American legion At national neadquarters toward this end. Memorial Financing Suggested The proposal for a national Ameri- can legion memorial here in the | form of an audiormm suggesied it be financed bv the legion nationally through benefits and through sale { of tokens. the owners of which would be admitied 1o the benefits given. | The token would carrv the legion | embiem on one side and an illustra- ton of the memorial on the other. { The building would be sufficiently large fo provide rooms for various legion organizations here, both local and national, and would accommodate large conventions, auio shows, opera companies and other organizations needing great size | Among the oiher resolutions adopt- | ed were the following Recommendation A new Gov- | ernment policy on veterans’ preference containing 10 points. 1o include separale Government agency for complaint and review. and a national employment service set up bv the legion; commendation of Comdr. Line- burg and J. J. Mallov for their vet- erans’ preference work Establishment of Emergency Commirtee” to support the District Commissioners, police and public in event of disorders, disasters. ficod, fires. riots and orher difficul- ties. This was said to be aimed di- | rectly ai the forthcoming jobless march of the Capial for “the legion Would Set Up Job Bureau. Fstablishment of a permanent Com- 10T. Tector of All Sainis' Episcopal | | mittee on Veterans’ Employment bere. Recommended liberalization of acts for veterans’ relief by restoration of | the right to judicial review of de- cisions of the administrator of vet- erans’ Affairs. Jowing candidates: For first, mander, Fred Money, commander of Sergt. Jasper Post, nominated by Mai. Thomas L. Frailey; for second vice commander, Jane L. Cox, commander of U. S. S. Jones Jacob .Jones Post, nominated by William XKehoe; nominated by Massie L. Blankenship. Mason celebrated his 48th birthday anniversary with congratulations of friends on his nomination. | | vice commander, Joseph riculture Post: for second vice com- mander, George W. Johns, Government Printing Office Post, nominated by | Barold 1. Emory of Lincoln Post; for third vice commander, commander of Tank Corps Post, nomi- nated by Frank L. Peckham. Proposal that a national convention of the American Legion be held here Mr. Estabrook was United States delegate 10 1he General Assembly of the International Insutute of Agri- cenlture an Rome He also served as secretary-general of the Inter-Amer- ican Conference on Agzriculiire, For- and Animal Industry 1o This 1930 a estry cny m He was a fellow of rhe American Assocation for rhe Advancement of Science, 1he American Statisrical Association, the American Academv of Politicel and Social Science, the American Associaton of Government Accountants, the American Econom'c ssociation, rthe Amarican Gene.ic Association, the Marviand State Hor- ticultural Society and the American Rose Society. He also belonged 10 the Cosmos Club of this eity. Funeral Mondasy. Born in Rockford. Di, Mr brook was graduated at the Texas Busmess College in 1890, ing 10 Washington. he became 8 st dent of ihe Berlitz School of lan- guages and the Corcoran Scientific School of George Washingion Uni- versity, Subseqiently, he was grad- uated in law 1n 1897 from Georgelown Universiy. He entered the Agriculture Depari- Esta - North Com- ! ment, as a sienographer jn the Bureau of Plant Tndustry in 1904, afier serv- ice as a clerk jn the War Departmeni Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Nellie Estabrook: s son, Otis Estabrook, 2417 North Capitol street: a daughter, Mrs Thelma Price, also of This city. and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Winchester of Frederick, Md Funeral services will be held here | at 11 a.m. Monday in the Rock Creek | Cemeterv chapel, with burial to follow Mason, who is department adjutant. is running on a ticket with the fol- | vice com- Washington Man Is Made Na- George Fox. ' in the cemetery. Rev. Dr. M. G. Tay- Church, Frederick. will nfficiate. ARMY-NAVY UNION ELECTS RUSSELL tional Commander of Order. C. .lohn Russell of Washington to- for | day was elected mational commander third vice commander, Fred Minnich | 0f the Army and Navy Union at the | of Government Printing Office Post, | closing session of its forty-eighth na tional Hotel Russell was promoted from senior vice commander. Formerly of San encampment at the Willard During 5th Marines. & Other new officers Steinke, Akron. Ohio, sre: Marcus senior vice commander; Clifford . Hann, Pleas- | antville, N. J.; Noland P. lowry. Miami, Fa.: 1. Kastnes, Milwaukee | and John H. Lambert, Boston, junior in Washington came from two visit- | ing legionnaires, .J. Bryan Hobbs, re- tiring department commander of Maryland, and C. W. Crush, depart- ment commander of Virgipia. ROHRER TO PREACH Rev. Freelev Rohrer, pastor of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church of | Washington, will deliver lomarrow‘l; sermon at the Arlington Presbyterian | Church at 11 a.m., Rev. Walter F. | Wolf of the Arlingion church an- nounced ioday. The text of the sermon has not been announced, Rev. Mr. Wolf said. | Arlington Presbyterian Church ' Lincoln street. The | is | ganization admitting to membership | located en Columbia Pike at South | all who have served in the national de- . vice commanders; C. C. Thoresen, Cleveland, paymaster; William Be- rentz, Akron, Ohio, ihspector general: Eugene F. Trunko, Akron, Ohio, judge advocate; James J. Seaborn, Forest Hills, N. Y., national surgeon; Bert | McIntyre, Akron, Ohio, national chap- lain; Charles R. Scenion, Cincinnati, historian, and William C. Xruger, Cleveland, patriotic instructor. Oakey Rookstool of Akron, Ohio, i8 the retiring national commander. 1In & report to the organisation, Capt T. S. Wilcher, chairman of the Wel- fare Committee, said other organisza- tions of veterans face “natural death because of eligibility rules which ad- | mit only certain groups to member- ship.” He pointed out that the Army and Navy Union is the oply such or- fense forces. ” 10 days old, starts training for his first appearance with ¢ 23. He's the bafboy-and mascot 0. C. HORSE RACING BILL ! HEARINGS BEGIN SOON Senate Subcommittee Will Start Sessions Mondav Morning on Debated Measure. A subcommittee will hold 10 a.m. Mondav in the District Commitiee room at the Capi- 101 on the bill 1o legalize horse racing 0 Washington, The measure has been debated 1 Congress off and on for several years. Early this session the House Districi Commitiee re- ported the bill out, but recalled o The subcommitiee i« heaoed bv Sen- ator Reynolds. Democrat, of North Carolina. The oiher members are Senators Tydings. Democrat, of Marv- land. and Capper, Republican, of Kansas FOUR ARE INJURED IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Two Suffer Severe Head Hurts Accidents of Last 24 Hours i | Pour persons were injured rwo per- haps seriouslv. n traffic accidents here during the last 24 hours Knocked from his bicvcle when. ac- | cording 70 a police repori. he drove 1010 the rear of an automobile ar John Marshall place and Pennsylvania ave- | nue. Fred Camp. 20. of 218 T street was taken 10 Emergency Hospital with a severe head injurv AL Casualty Hospiral it said Lilhan Wilkerson. 19, of 15 streer northeast, mav have a fractured skull as the result of being strick by a rruck in the 2200 block of First sireet { The others victims were Esther Pear- son, R of ihe 300 block of Third street. southeast, who received an eve miury when hit by a car, and Mabel Nelson, 48 of 1730 New Hampshire avenue. who received a knee injurv when sirnck by a street car at Con- necticut and New Hampshire avenues The child was treated aL home and the woman at Emergency. LEAVE FOR CAMP Senale nearings au later n was 2 v Final of Girl Sconts Va. Contingent Mt. Solon, The final rontingent of Girl Sconts attending Camp Mav Flather, ai Mount Solon, Va_ left Union Station this morning. There were 49 in the party A total of 360 2irls has been tioning At the camp GUMNg 1is sessions is Summer Cleric Departe for vacs | | | | Running with Bush are: For first Francisco. he now is connecied wnn} 1. Koehl, | the Social Security Board. | | nominated from Department of Ag-'the war he served in France with the ' plays Jimmy Brooks, while Jimmy's daughter, Nancy frequent the playground while HEN Rev. Francis Cornell of St. Patrick’s Church in Bal- timore stepped inio a fast one delivered by rhe strong right-pitehing ar mof Ben Zola. Georgetown athlete, and sent the ball | spinning over the treetops for a home Tun at Garfield Park yesterday after- ! noon, the boys in Southeast Wash- ington knew that “Frenchie” Cornell had come 1o town for the reunion Then, when there followed a three- begger, punched out by Rev. Elmer | Kimball. a Methodist minister, and he | | scored on & fly from the bat of Joe Osierman, a member of the metropol- itar¥ police force, the real celebration ' {began at Washingtoms oldest play- ground, Garfleld Park. | Tt was the day of days for the old RANZ. some of whom came front as far as Wheeling, W. Va.. for the reunjon. | Naturally base ball took first place in | | | Extra-Base Hit ' Park Reunion’s Base Ball Game donkey base ball The uninterested party in the The young Staff Photo SENATE UNIT GIVE CRIME STUDY DAT Value of Character Educa- tion in Cutting Juvenile Delinquency Cited. of Star The vaiue character sdicatior naugurated n rne Washinglon prb- Ic schools a few vears ago, as means of reducing juvenile de quency in future was ciied 0 & filed ommerce of & national conditions auihorized by several vears Senator Copela Democrat. o New York. who directed ine aron- wide crime survev, also sponsored [he \cation movement 1 ine Distriet scnools In 115 repori yes- terday the Commerce Commitiee called atiention 10 a hearing on char- acter educanon held in 1935 by the Senaie siubcommitiee N charge of Districi appropriations Continuing ihe Commerce Commitiee report states: The ronsensis of rhe prominent educational officiale and others in- teresied, who testified at this hear- ng. was that a Nanon-wide adoprion of a program of character education would be Instrumental in the reduc- 11on of the ranidly increasing number of juvenile delinguencies” The com- mittee also artached 1o report an outline of the scope of the Washing- 1on experiment in character educa- uon The Nation's mated by ihe $13.000.000.000 vear general conviction thar there has been a breakdown in our law enforce- ment agencies and the courts The committee recommended con- solidarion of Federal investigating agencies. including ihe Justice De- partment's Federal Bureau of Inves- niRation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover and sections of the Past Office Depari- ment, Narcotic Bureau Coest Guard and Cusioms Bureau Tn one instance, the report said representarives from five bureaus were &1l working on the same case he Sepate vesierdat e. n2 10y crime tne Senate port e in 2n cnaracier erime hill committee a was at it Asti- nearlv cited “a Guest Pastor at Woodside WOODSIDE. Md. Angust 14 «Spe- ®al' .—Rev. Robert Shores of Wash- ngton will occupy the puloit of Grace Episcopal Church at the am services on Sunaavs for the remainder Mark Checkers as well as base ball were popular yesterday at an “old home week” reunion at Garfield Playground. Tennyson, who was director of the playground 20 years ago. 134 North Carolina ovenue Here Dick southeast, Rea, looks on. Jimmy used 1o Tennyson was in charge of it Star Stafl Photo. the amusement field. though the old- timers plaved fennis, swam and pitched horseshoes. Even the girls got in it with their own original game of schlag—strictly A Washington pas- time. Under the direction of Dick Tennv- son, who was direcior of this play- ground back in 1918, serving until 1922, an “old-home week” celebration was staged from 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon until past the dinner hour last night ‘The base ball game, high light of ihe reunion, featured (eams repre- senting the sandlotiers .of anywhere from 10 to 20 years ago, against the boys of today. Who won is still in doubt. but 1t was a good game at that, and Umpire Teonard Ross of the De- | partment of Plavgrounds gave the Old- Timers a break and chalked them up with a victory. 13-12 RENEWAL OF WORK SPURS FIGHT ON SLAUGHTER HOUSE ] |Gobel Speeding Constrig- tion as D. C. Officials Seek Nuisance Cure, |SEAL SEEKS METHODS TO BLOCK OPERATIONS fKing. Meanwhile, Bends FEfforte | Toward Pushing Through Bill to Restrict Indnstries Official Washingion was keved 1oday to a greater determination 1o prevent operations of nuisance industries here, | after the announcement of Adolf Gobel Co. that it would speed con- struction of a regional slaughter hovise and meat rendering plant in Benninz capable of handling a maximum kil of 489 live stock per hour News that work actually had besn | resumed on the Benning road site after a suspension of activities for nearly four months, was met in official circles Jale vesterday with mixed feel- ings of surprise and indignation. From ihe Capiiol alsy came a warning ihat orotective legislation against the Gobel Co. and similar “uncesirable” ind tires would be pressed without abale- ment Commissioner Aller He shook 0 see a We ve made that George E one of ihe first 10 comment b head and said T hate slaughier house go uo bere Fol see that ihe Govel Co. 0 meet everv singie requirement the Distric To Be Ready in # Months, by D. Eaward for 1he packing vould begin Monda f contra was te is has imposed An annoupcement Clarke. local atiorney firm said that construction in en The vork nest at <t Constri was he site ction Co ihe Turner N which several months 220, expe given sto n un- enuire plant housed in by ihe approa of cold weather nless some foreseen obstacle arises. our plant should be ready 10 begin operations :n about monihs,” Clarke explained Despite the fact that the failure of he King-Norion anii-nuisa bills removed the last obsiacle in the wav of construction of the controversial Benning plant, Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal said yester be was 201ng ahead” with legal plans 10 bloex actual operaiton of the slaughier hose in the failure of that, 10 protect Washington from the effects of industrial acrivities Builds at Own Risk." The attitude of Distriet and eral officials indicated 1bey fully end 10 back up Ihe recent warnu of Seal that if the Gobel Co. de- cides 10 go ahead with plans "1t must build at 11s own risk A District building inspector was on the lob at the Benning site yesierday afternoon after the arrival here of M. J. Roach, engineer for the Turner Construction Co. The building speclor's office 1s under orders from the Commissioners 1o see that ron- struction follows exactly along the ap- proved plans The comoany's fears, he indicated. on The Gobel Co. i RoINg that in the interests of the people o ihe District of Columbia A model piany will be constructed despite the parent ohiections of the Commission ers.” Clarke said While he was making nouncement, the Commissioners discussing briefly in a board mee the sanitary report prepared in con nection with the new sewage disposa plant. Secretarv Ickes had warne that the estimated waste from ib Gobel slaughter house would over-ta the capacity of the disposal plant. angd & study was made at his request Meanwhile, Senator Wil King, chairman of the Senafe Distric Commirttee and one of the anthors o the anti-nuisance bill, declared would contintie to press for its passage Senator Pat McCarran. chairman o) he sub-committee which suspende hearings on the King bill on #cc of ine Supreme Court measire said 1oday he “wants 1o complere record in the anti-nuisance case an make a report to the Senate ™ Work Confirms Intention. The resumption of work at Rer ning, however, tended 1o remove 2 uncertainty in the minds of mary of ficials that the Gobel Co. reaily mean| business when it made 1ts announee ment several weeks ago fhat it wou 2o shead. The statement followe | pigeon-holing of the anti-nuisanc bill by ihe House District Commii after an attorney for the Gobel C said he would advise Frank M. Fyros Gobel president, 1o withdraw fro the Washington area Clarke explained thar the New Yor| packing firm had waited ‘his lon ont of courtesy 1o Congress” and als at “considerable expense” but that 1 Executive Commitiee on Angust had notified the Turner Constrictio | Co. it would wait no longer. Anothd factor in the delay. the attorney e plained. was because The construciio company was just completing & ne slaughter house in New York. The first excavation permit was | sued by the District. building 1nspe wor's office as far back as Septem 11, 1936. Before operations wes suspended in April, the excavabol and foundations had been completes | The engine room also had been A7 ished and new machinerv ineralled The construction company’s eng neer showed from the blue prinia ve. terdav that the plant would have maximum slaughter capacitv of 14-ca tle, 150 sheep, 25 calves and 300 ho | per hour of operation. This is 1 same number esiimated in a reeel | Public Health Service Report whid resulted In an investigation 1o d termine the ability of the sewage posal plant 1o provide satisfacto treatment. of industrial wasie on i above scale sucn | Ped- = m- attornev had n those ground 10 see 10 19 hat an BAND CONCERT. By ihe Soldiers’ Home Band in ! bandstand at 7 o'clock tomight. .Jof S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster. Ant Pointner, assistant Program. March, “Adjurant King"” Reev| Overture, “Ideomenee Mora| Military tattoo, “Grand English M tary Tati00" < Scenes from musical comed: Jones™” Sir Edward Germ Popular npumbers, “Sweel. India Moon" Song of the Wanderer" Waltz suite, “Marianna” Finale, “Austrian Defile” “The Star Spangled Banner”