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= v ‘ - General News ‘ @h WASHINGTON, —_— COLLINS T0 PRESS FOR LEVIES IN USE OF SEWAGE PLANT Bill Would Atlow District to * Exact Payments From Industries. OTHER CITIES’ SUCCESS WITH IDEA POINTED OUT | More Equitable Distribution of Expenses Is Motive Be- hind Measure. Failure of efforts to stop erection of a slaughter house in Washington | drew from Representative Collins of Mississippi ysterday a plea for pas- sage of legislation empowering the District to exact payment frem in- dustries for any excessive use made of its new $4,125,000 sewage treatment plant. Collins, who introduced such a Mmeasure recently, indicated he would lead a determined fight for its en- actment at the next session of Con- gress. New York, Chicago'and many other citirs have adopted this theory #uccessf. he pointed out. “and it s equally applicable to Washington.” D. C, SUNDAY MORNING , AUGUST 1 ¢ Suniuy Shar 5, 1937. K * Broken Water Main Maroons Shoppers, Brings Firemen to Rescue As chairman of the House Ap- propriations Subcommittee for the District, Collins approved a $216.000 | appropriation for the maintenance of the Blue Plains sewage plant during | the 1938 fiscal vear. Estimated sewage | from the proposed Adolf Gobel slaughter house, officials have con- | tended, would add an overload of | approximately 30 per ceni of the | capacity of the treatment works, | necessitating. perhaps. the construc- tion of additional units | Support in Both Houses. | The Collins bill. yhich would au- thorize the Commissioners to levy a charge on indus'rial sewage in e: S of 30,000.000 gallons a vear for any one user s support in both houses. By the time the Gobel plant is sup- posed to be placed in operation, Con- gress will then be in session. Sewage | problems of this nature were made a subject of thorouzh study by District | ganitary engincers in preparing a re- port for the Commissioners. | His motive in sponsoring the pend- | ing bill, Collins said, was to set up a more equitable distribution of the expense of providing the District of Columbia with sewage facilities. He called it to the attention of the House in the appendix of the Record | yesterday with the following explana- tion: | “The theory underlying this bill is that there should be no discrimination | because of the effect of regulations | either in favor of or against users of | the District sewage facilities. The broad theory upon which this bill rests is that payment should be made for the use of such facilities in pro- | portion to use. The legislation au- | thorizes the District Commissioners | to take such steps as they may find | necessary within their discretion to accomplish this end. | Without Special Privilege. | ¥ “The theory that a municipality ghould be empowered to secure equita- ble distribution of the costs of such ® utility as sewage service, without | special privilege to any favored party or parties at the expense of others, through being authorized to charge for | the privilege of discharging sewage | into the municipal sewage system is not original with H. R. 8103. That bill only represents a belated reogni- tion of that theory here—a recognition due in large measure at this partic- ular time to the impending comple- tion of the District’s new sewage dis- posal plant, which was made possible by a Public Works Administration allotment. “As this fine new plant goes into operation it is time for the District f to protect itself. The District tax- payers are going to pay for the plant, and it seems to me that this large | g&roup of persons would not wish to be | assessed for any special privilege or special use for the commercial benefit of favored parties. This theory has,) already been successfully adopted in Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, New York, and many other municipalities and it is equally applicable to Washington. Adopted in 30 States. “I am informed that a mere hasty review of the enabling legislation which embraces the theories of H. R. | 8103 reveals that 30 States have adopt- i ed legislation authorizing public bod- ies therein to charge for the privi- lege of discharging sewage into public sewage-disposal systems. “These States are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, | Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minne- | sota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebras- | ka, New Hampshire, New York, North | Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Bouth Carolina, South Dakota, Ten- | nessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wash- ington, West Virginia and Wyoming. “Furthermore, it should be noted that in most of these States the en- | abling legislation goes ever lutheri than H. R. 8103, for in many of | these States the rates to be charged | must be sufficient to retire the obliga- tions issued to finance he gost of the sewage-disposal system or plant.” Meanwhile, construction of the Go bel plant was proceeding at the site on Benning road under District in- | spection. A full crew was expected | to be put to work beginning tomor- row. FISHING SHIP, GROUNDED IN CHESAPEAKE, FLOATED Coast Guard Cutter Aids Vessel | Which Ran on Sandbar During Storm. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 14. — The Coast Guard cutter Apache today floated the 125-foot fishing steamer, | G. H. McNell, from the Upper Chesa- | peake Bay Sandbar on which the| vessel ran aground yesterday. The McNeil, carrying a crew of 30, had been fishing off the Delaware and | New Jersey coast and passed thmuqh; the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal | en route to Reidsville, Va., her home port. She ran aground between ‘Tolchester and Poole’s Island during a storm. | period, September 17. A minor flood occurred along K street late yesterday, when a water main broke under a shop in the 1500 block, but business proceeded as usual, as these photographs indicate. Above, Fire- man Néil Mortenson of No. 1 Rescue Squad tries to remedy the situation by turning off the water in the main. It took him and other firemen about half an hour te do the job. Mrs. Helen Fall, J. E. King and Vincent Carrera were temporarily marooned on the steps in the lobby of the In- vestment Building after water seeped through the shop. The manager called out his mop squad and the place was quickly cleared, allowing the t dry. Herbert Wist is exercisin rio to get out of the building g the mop. which the main broke. The temporary flood didn't stop business in the shop under Mrs. J. MacCreanor, 1140 K street, a cus- tomer, and Mrs. J. E. Le Jeune, proprietress (left), took off their shoes and continued their business barter. wandered barefoot around the premises, seeing how much of her stock was damaged. Later, Mrs. Le Jeune —Star Staff Photos. SEVENBADLY HURT N AUTOCRASHES Youth’s Car Hits Curbing. Brain Concussion Result of Truck Collision. Seven persons were seriously injured in automobile accidents in and near Washington last night. Eugene Lowry, 17, of 3925 McKinley street, suffered internal injuries, a puncture wound in the side and shock when his automo- bile, according to police, crashed into the curbing on the center strip in Wiscon- sin avenue at Langdrum lane in Bethesda. The youth, son of Milton E. Low- ry, patent attor- ney, was taken to Georgetown Hos- pital. He is a stu- dent at Woodrow Wilson High School. Mrs. Gladys P. Culp, 37, of 1400 L street was admitted to Cqsualty Hos- pital suffering from severe brain con- cussion and possibly & skull fracture after her automobile was in collision Wwith a truck driven by Carl Gorham, 19, colored, 1820 Fenwick street north- east at First and L streets northeast. Ralph Jones, 38, of 1723 West Vir- ginia avenue northeast suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries when the truck on which he was rid- ing was in collision with an automobile Eugene Lowr: | driven, police said, by Lawrence Ber- | nard, 31, of 4450 Verplanck place in the 4900 block of Forty-sixth street. The truck, police said, was driven by Elmer M. Bliss, jr., 23, of the 2800 block of Twenty-seventh street. Jones is in Emergency Hospital. Mrs. Bertie I. Wenk, 56, of 22 Seaton place was cut about the face when the automobile in which she was riding | in a funeral procession was forced to stop suddenly at New Jersey avenue and B street southeast and hurled her from her seat. She was treated at Providence Hospital. Virginian Injured. Robert Roberts, 56, of 315 South 8t. Asaph street, Alexandria, was taken to Emergency with a compound frac- ture of the left leg, cuts on the head and possibly a fractured skull after being struck on the Memorial Highway near the railroad bridge late last night. Frank H. Hepp, 20, of 301 Webster street, took Roberts to the -Lospital after the accident and was later charged with reckless driving by Park Police and released on $500 bond set by United States Commissioner H. Burton Phillips of Alexandria. Four youths injured in a collision on the Colesville pike near the Toll House i Tavern were taken to Walter Reed Hospital shortly before midnight. The extent of their injuries was not de- termined. Donald Gill, 20, and Lawrence ‘Windsor, 15, both of Silver Spring, were in one car and Robert Baggott, 20, and John Rushe, 20, of Clifton Park in the other, according to police. MEETING WIl:L PERFECT CONSTITUTION GROUP Organization of the District group for observance of the 150th anni- versary of the signing of the Consti- tution is to be perfected at & meeting at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the board room of the District Building. Dr. George C. Havenner, chairman of the District commission, yesterday stressed that but a short time remains before the opening of the celebration The commis- sion will co-operate with the United State Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, authorized by sn Congress. act of By a proclamation of President Roosevelt, the celebration will extend from September 17, the 150th an- niversary of the signing of the Con- stitution, to April 30, 1939, the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States. HOSPITAL CONTROL CHANGE IS PRAISED | Seckinger Says Economies and Improved Service Now Possible. Without any radical change in poli- | cies and no shake-up in personnel, | better co-ordination of health serv- ices 18 being achieved as a result of transfer of control over the District's hospitals to the Health Department, Acting Health Officer Daniel L. 82ck- inger said yesterday. omies and improved service would be possible. Jurisdiction over Gallinger Hospital and the tuberculosis sanatoria, from the Board of Public Welfare to the Health Department, became effective July 1. Provision for the change was inserted in the 1938 appropriation act | by Congress after several months' de- | bate. As an illustration of what is planned, Dr. Seckinger announced the estab- lishment of a reporting system for an exchange of case records between the Health Department services and the hospitals in ‘maternal cases. Records of Cases. He said this should serve to fore- stall ‘unexpected developments in treatment of expectant mothers, since the obstetricians would be furnished in advance of the hospitalization of the patient with her medical case history, as a part of the new routine procedure. In the past, due to division of au- thorities over health services and hospitals, he said, the furnishing of case histories has been a rather hap- hazard proceeding. Also, by operation of the co-ordi- nated services, Dr. Seckinger be- lieves, it will be possible for many others to bear children at their homes instead of going to Gallinzer Ho. | pital, where conditions are crowded. | Where investigation of the home con- ditions shows this desirable and when the condition of the expectant mother | permits, he said this would become a more general practice. Increase in Budget. the Health Department. For this year it added $1458,860 to the health budget. Included in the transfer were the hospital permit office, the ambu- lance service and the contract medical charities, as well as Gallinger and the sanitoria. For medical charities the District this year has appropria- tions totaling $155.000 for care of Indigent cases at Children's; Emer- gency and Casualty Hospitals and the ‘Washington Home for Incurables. Previously Dr. George C. Ruhland, health officer, had won approval for reorganization and expansion of his own health services. One of the first steps was develop- ment of a generalized nursing service. Each District nurse now is charged with handling of all types of cases, whereas formerly the nurses cared for specialized cases. Dr. Ruhland found this caused & waste of tinfe in travel. Staff Now Totals 75. In 1935 there were 36 nurses. The ataff of the Nursing Bureau was stead- ily raised, and now totals 75, includ- ing 64 nurses, five supervisors and one director and five clerks. Dr. Rubland also has been granted provision of several additional pre- natal clinics and an appropriation of $165,000 was granted for this year for the construction of the first of sev- eral proposed health centers, or poly- clinics. This is to be built on the site of the Jones Elementary School, at First and L streets. To_this new center will be moved the District'’s old tuberculosis clinic and the venereal disease clinic. BUS ROUTES AWARDED LEONARDTOWN, Md, August 14 (8Bpecial). —Two new bus-route con- tracts in 8t. Marys County have been awarded by the Board of Education. Carl Insley of Hollywood won the Hollywood-to-Great Mills School bus route. Warren Thompson of Loveville was swarded the Loveville-Clements and Compton bus route. He said he believed both econ- | _ | Public Welfare for a new The transfer of the hospital services ! greatly increases the importance of | F unJ; for Municipal Center to Be Asked in 39, Hazen Says A new effort to obtain funds for | starting construction of the long- | delaved new Municipal Center will be | made in the 1939 District budget | estimates, under plans disclosed yes- terday by Commissioner Hazen. He announced he would seek to have an item of perhaps as much as | | 81,000,000 included in the budget proposals, which are to be forwarded to the Budget Bureau by the Commfs- sioners next month. This would be for the first wing of the projected new .“city hall” and would be intended as new housing for headquarters | divisions of the Police Department. “1 have hopes that the other Com- | missioners will agree that the time has come to start the center.” said Hazen, “and I have hope the Budget | Bureau and Congress will find this | program possible.” Inclusion of the item will add to| the problems of Maj. Daniel J. Dono- | van, District budget officer, who is!| sharpening his shears to cut into the estimates of department heads, now being filed. Welfare Estimates, Estimates of the Board of Public | Welfare, amounting to $11,349,567, or |62 per cent over current appropria- tions, will have to be reduced heavily, | the Commissioners and Maj. Donovan said. They said this would apply to| the request of the Public Assistance Division for an increase from $1,876,- | 410 to $4,079.455 for the several re- lief programs. That there wjll be a new contest | over the relief item was indicated yesterday, however, when the Coun- | cil of Social Agencies promptly de- | | clared the request of the Board of | item of | $1.225,000 for relief of employable persons was justified. The Budget Bureau and Congress | | refused to grant funds for the em- ployable cases in the appropriations Million Will Be Sought in Next Budget Estimates for Beginning of Construc- tion — Welfare Reque | all of whom were in desperate circum- Cut Seen. The Welfare there are some 3.000 in desperate need. of Social Agencies | for this fiscal year. Board insists cases who are The Council said: “Private family welfare agencies | have stretched their funds to the | utmoat to meet the severe emergen- cies that are occurring daily among | the city's poor. One large agency helped 767 more families in July, 1937, than in the same period last year. To do this, since its funds are | less than last year, it has had to spread relief dangerously thin. “The five major private welfare agencies aided 2.000 families last month, but turned away 204 umme.n.; stances, simply because there were | no funds available to help them.” Heavier Burden Seen. | Miss Anne Halliday, secretary of the council's family and child welfare di- vision. said that since both public and private agencies lack funds, families are resorting to & means of existence that will ultimately place an even heavier welfare burden on the com- munity in terms of illness, delin- | quency and other social problems. | The municipal center would be | built on the northern half of the area | Between Pennsylvania avenue and D street, Third and Sixth streets, pur- chased some years ago as & result of | Federal plans eventually to take over the present District Building. The Commissioners for two years have been seeking to have the United | States buy the lower half of the site | for Federal purposes. Several times they have proposed that the United States buy the District Building to make available a portion of the sum | needed by the District for -its new home. Hazen said he would seek to start | the project next year because of the | deplorable condition of the old build- | ing on Indiana avenue near D street. Group Threatens ‘Protest Sit-Down OnCar Rails Here Park View Business Men Irked by Georgia ‘Avenue Service. Irked by the failure of the Capital Transit Co. to improve service along Georgia avenue, members of the Park View Business Men's Association threaten to sit ol the street car tracks in protest. g The sit-down was approved only as a last resort, however, when the asso- ciation adopted a resolution Friday night complaining against old and noisy cars operating on Georgia ave- nue. M. C. Schwartz was re-elected presi- dent of the association. Other officers named for another term are D. E. Nichols, first vige president; Theodore Hohmeyer, second vice president; J. Zoltrow, treasurer, and J. M. Basso, secretary. SOLDIERS’ HOME DEATH, IS DECLARED SUICIDE Veteran of Indian Wars Found Shot in Garden House on Grounds. A suicide certificate was issued by the coroher last night in the death of Henry 8. Corp, 74, Soldiers’ Home inmate, who shot himself through the head in a garden house on the home grounds yesterday. Corp, a veteran of the Indian wars, formerly was a sergeant in the 4th Infantry. He came to the home about 10 years ago from Arkansas, Police said Corp left a note for his son, John 8. Corp, & guard at the Lorton Reformatory, giving instrue- eflmecfi,“ disposal of his personal FLICKERING SIGNS HIT BY AUTO CLUB Glaring Headlights 'Alu; @on- demned as Injurious to Vi- sion of Drivers. Glaring headlights and eyestrain ac- centuated by flickering illuminated advertising signs were denounced as night menaces to safety by the Key- stone Automobile Club and the Amer- ican Automobile Association yesterday. George E. Keneipp, manager of the Keystone Club, said tests made by the organization in its safety trailer, proved that only the exceptional per- son was able to see objects Ythrough the glare of approaching headlights. ‘The glare test, Keneipp explained, simulated ideal highway conditions, with headlights in proper focus and figures of pedestrians outlined in white. While everything was favor- able to the operator, most of those taking the tests, although possess- ing normal vision in other respects, were unable to see objects through the glare. Thomas P. Henry, president of the A. A A, appealed to business in- terests to place some check on il- luminated highway signs before an aroused public opinion compels Legis- latures to take action. “There are many sections of our highways today where to the night driver it looks as if a lunatic has scrambled the rainbow into a million fragments and attached these frag- ments to perpetual motion,” Henry declared. et Clothing Thieves Hunted. ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 14— Three cologed thieves, who snatched $75 worth of clothing from hangars in' the J. C. Penney Co. store, 615 King ‘street, were sought by police today. The trio of two men and a woman grabbed five $15 suits, leaped into an automobile and fled down the Mount Vernon boulevard toward Washington this afternoon. i ARMY-NAVY UNION ENDS CONVENTION (;‘John Russell of Washing- ton Named National Head of Organization. 4 ‘With the election of C. John Rus- sell of Washington as national com- mander, the forty-eighth national en- campment of the Army and Navy Union adjourned yesterday. after four days of sessions at the Willard Ho- tel Atlantic City was selected for the next convention. Russell, who now is attached to the Social Security Board, served dur- ing the World War with the 5th C. JOHN RUSSELL. Marines in France. He succeeds | Oakey Rookstool of Akron, Ohio, s national commander. The organization adopted resolu- tions urging employment preference for ex-service men and deportation of aliens on relief. The delegates also urged expansion of military aviation to include 10,000 planes and 100,000 pilots. A Federal charter will be sought for the union, and & membership drive will be launched, with the object of enlisting as many as possible of the estimated 12,000,000 eligibles. The organization is open to all present or former members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps or National Guard. John J. Crim of Washington was re-elected national legislative chair- man. C. H. Baker, also of Washing- ton, was named national adjutant. Mark Steinke of Akron, Ohio, was elected senior vice commander. BROTHER DE&LAN JOSEPH IS DEAD AT ANNENDALE Family Name of Member of Cath- olic Sect Was Michael 8. Hoffman. By the Associated Press. AMMENDALE, Md, August 14— Brother Declan Joseph, a member of the Christian Brothers for more than haif a century, died today at the Normal Institute here. His family name was Michael 8. Hoffman, He was born in Brookville, Pa.. November 17, 1853. After a career of preaching which carried him to Norfolk, Va.; Rockhill College, Md.; Calvert College, Balti- more, and Augusta, Ga., he retired to the Normal Institute here. He cele- brated his golden jubilee as a mem- ber of the Christian Brothers three years ago. FIREMEN’S CARNIVAL Srecial Dispaten to The Star. SANDY SPRING, Md,, August 14— The Sandy Spring Volunteer Fire De- partment will hold its annual carnival and field day August 25 at the Sher- wood High School, it was announced today by Fire Chief Spencer J. H. Brown. Entertainment features include a base ball game in the afternoon and dancing at night. 8 will be served from 8 to 8 pm. will be turned into the department fund. NEWBILL OFFERED ON REORGANIZING {Byrnes’ Measure Embodies Provisions Seen Likely to Win Next Session. A revised governmental reorganiza- tion bill, embodying provisions believed likely to be approved at the next ses- sion of Congress, was introduced yes- terday by Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, chairman of the Joint Committee on Reorganization. Byrnes predicted the committee would approve the revised bill tomor- row under an agreement to postpone enactment of reorganization legisla- tion until next session. ‘The new measure, like the one passed in the House Friday, authorizes the President by executive orders to re- group, abolish and co-ordinate execu- tive agencies, but exempts the so- | called regulatory agencies whose pow- | ers are quasi-judicial . The new bill also exempts the Federal Reserve Board. the District government and the Board of Engineers of the War Department. While the bill passed by the House gives the President broad powers of reorganzation for two years, the new | measure extends the delegation of power for three years from the date | of passage of the act. The civil service provisions also are materially changed from the provi- | stons of the original Robinson omnibus bill. The new measure eliminates the power to the President to exempt from civil service provisions positions found by him to be policy-determining in character. It extends the classified civil service by giving to the Executive the power to cover into the classified service approximately 14.000 employes, this transfer being dependent on the certificate of the head of the depart- ment that the employe has rendered satisfactory service for the previous six months and on the employe passing non-competitive examinations. The new bill gives the President the power to appoint—with the advice and consent of the Senate—the heads of bureaus and divisions, but eliminates the provision authorizing the heads of departments to appoint officials serv- ing in a confidential relationship. INSURANCE AGENTS ELECT BALTIMOREAN Collective Bargaining Organida- tion Board Names D. C. Men to Three Offices. Election of Frank Deegan of Bal- timore as president of the National Association of Industrial Insurance Agents, a recently-formed organiza- tion for collective bargaiming to im- prove working conditions of insurance agents, was announced yesterday. Deegan and other officers were elect- ed by the Board of Directors named at the association’s first national con- vention held in its headquarters in the Southern Building here Thurs- day. Other officers are E. C. Rothery, ‘Washington, first vice president; W. L. Bristow, Richmond, Va., second vice president; Gordon Eouch, Washington, third vice president; John M. Dow- ney, Philadelphia, secretary-treasurer, and Horace C. Young, Washington general counsel. A. E. Kaiser, Balti- more, i8 an additional member of the Board of Directors. The association recently began & membership campaign, stressiag the advantages of collective bargaining on a national basis for insurance agents. Its leaders do not plan affiliation with any labor organization. Objectives in- clude establishment of a uniform com- pany-agent contract, a retirement fund and efforts to secure legislation ad- vantageous to the insurance agents, e 28 . TUltimatum From Mayor. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (#)— Mayor William Guilfoyle served no- tice on Fire Chief Willam Grote that the latter had just five days to carry out the Mayor's instructions or be suspended for 30 days without pay. The Mayor ordered the chief to paint his mechanic's automobile red. The PAGE B—1 . NEW JUVENILE ACT AMONG3D.C.BILLS PASSED BY SENATE Licensing of Realty Brokers and Salesmen Is Also Approved. NO ACTION IS TAKEN ON TAXI INSURANCE Both Measures Now Go to Confer- ence for Possible Compro- mise Changes. BY J. A. O'LEARY. In a drive to clear its calendar of District legislation before adjourn- ment, the Senate yesterday passed nine local bills, most important of which provide a new code for the Juvenile Court and licensing of real estate brokers and salesmen ‘The Juvenile Court measure was al« tered materially, however, from the form in which it passed the Houss more than five months ago, and is ex= pected to go to conference tomorrow. Supporters of the move to improve and modernize the procedure in juvenile cases—an effort that has been under way for a number of years—preferred the House measure as a means of ac- eomplizhing the desired results While the Senate amendments change in several respects the House plan for conducting the work of the court, the provisions of both bills still are subject to further consideration, and possible compromise, in confer- ence, Two Minor Changes. The real estate licensing measure also had previously passed the House and the Senate made only two minor changes, which the House may either accept or ‘send to conference. If a final adjustment can be worked out this week on these bills Congress will have disposed of two District prob- lems that have been pending over an extended period of years. Only one important bill that was | ready for agtion failed to win Senate | approval yesterday—the taxicab in- | surance measure—and this may be taken up again before adjournment The six other bills the Senate ap- proved yesterday were A bill to enlarge the Washington Airport. An amendment to the District cods to make sure that a person who kills another while committing a felony could be charged with first-degree murder. This has not passed the House. A reeolution changing the names of the £ driveways extending through the Mall to Maine, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma avenues. This has passed the House and goes to the President. The drives are now named after Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison. A bill already passed by the House granting a charter to Southeastern University of the Young Men's Chrise tian Association. It goes to the Presie dent. A resolution. still requiring House action, authorizing the District, Mary- | land, Virginia, West Virginia and | Pennsylvania to enter into a compact for purification of the Potomac River | and streams in its drainage area. The | compact would have to be ratified by Congress and the State Legislatures. A Senate bill to reguiate the sale of serums and toxins here in accord- ance with Federal requirsments still requires House approval. A bill requiring the Commissioners, the Park and Planning Commission and the Treuury Department to reach & mutual agreement before closing of any streets in the proposed new public building area west of Nineteenth street, bounded by New York avenue, E street and the Potomac River. Conferees Named. As soon as the Juvenile Court bill had passed, the Senate asked for a conference with the House, and named the following conferees: Senators King | of Utah, Copeland of New York, Tyd- | ings of Maryland and Austin of Ver- mont. Copeland, who took the lead in ob- taining passage’ of the measure yes- terday after it had been on the cal- endar for several months, told the Senate the legislation was favored by the late majority leader, Senator Robinson of Arkansas. The changes made in the bill yesterday were put forward by Senator Gerry of Rhode Island. After stating that he had gone over the amendments with Gerry, Copeland added, “And I feel satisfled if his amendments are accepted and the bill is passed, in the conference we should bé able to work out the kind of bill we desire.” One of the major changes proposed by Gerry eliminates the section that designated an officer of the Juvenile Court to make the preliminary inves- tigation and determination as to whether the court should take formal Jjurisdiction over a child. His amend- ment substituted the assistant cor- poration counsel regularly assigned to the court as the one to receive prelim- inary information concerning juvenile cases. An officer of the court then would make the necessary inquiry and study of the home, but would report back to the corporation counsel, who would determine whether jurisdiction should be taken and a petition filed. As it came from committee the bill provided for trial by the court, but allowed the person cited to demand a jury. This was changed to require trial by jury unless the person cited voluntarily waives the jury right. Another last-minute amendment struck out the House section allowing the judge to designate a social worker of the court as a commissioner to con= sider cases coming to the attention of the court and either work out dispo- sition or direct the filing of a peti- tion. The committee previously had amended the House provision to re- quire approval by the District Com- missioners of persons to be appointed as court commissioners. The bill as originally drawn was based on the standard juvenile court act. The committee report emphasiz-s that the bill seeks to make Juvenile Court & new type of tribunal, based on the principle that the child who comes before it {s not to be regarded chief had it painted blue. (See D. C. BILLS, Page B-3) e