Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1937, Page 19

Wash SLAUGHTER HOUSE . WARNING 1S ISSUED BY CITY OFFICIALS Piant Possible Menace to| Sewage Disposal, Gobel Is Informed. REPORT OF DR. PARRAN CITED IN STATEMENT Commissioners Offer to Hold Hearing Before Firm Incurs Expense of Construction. Adolf Gobel, Inc., was warned by the Commissioners today that operation of its proposed slaughter house in Ben- ning, now under construction, is re- garded as a “potential menace” to the District's new sewage disposal plant. As the Gobel company must apply to the Health Department for a li- cense before it can operate in the Dis- trict, the Commissioners offered to arrange for a hearing on the sewage matter at the company’s convenience. Notice to this effect was being given, the Commissioners asserted, before the company incurred further con- struction expenses. The warning was issued in the form of a letter drafted at yesterday's board meeting and made public today by Carporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal, Wwith whom the Commissioners have constlted on the problems arising out of the building permit issued to the Gobel company n April 27. It was signed by Commisisoner Melvin C Hazen as president of the board. The action taken by the Commis- sioners was interpreted as a warning that an operating license would be withheld unless the Gobel company can furnish convincing evidence that the amount of scwage from its slaughter house would have no harm- ful effect on the capacity of the dis- posal plant at Blue Plains. Since the disposal plant was erected to modify the amount of pollution in the Potomac River, fear was expressed by Secretary of the Interior Ickes and | Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran, jr., of the | Public Health Service that an over- load of slaughter house waste would | reduce the amount of sewage treat- | ment. | Letter to Gobel Firm. The Commissioners’ letter follows: “August 18, 1937, “Adolf Gobel, Inc., “3737 Benning road northeast, “Gentlemen: “Recently it has been called to our attention that the operation of your | proposed abattoir at 3737 Benning road northeast, Washington, D. C., is a potential menace to the sewage dis- Posal plant being constructed by the District of Columbia. “The building plans, now on file Wwith the Inspector of Buildings, show the capacity of your proposed plant to be: 14 cattle, 300 hogs, 150 sheep and 25 calves per hour (allowing for the fact that cattle would not be killed | when sheep and calves are bcmzi [killed) per eight-hour day for six | days a week. . “The Surgeon General of the United tates Public Health Service has re- Jported that an average of 500-600 gal- ons of waste per animal killed, re- Eardless of the type of animal, may oe expected and that on the basis pf & maximum daily killing of 3,152 nimals and a volume of waste of 00 gallons per animal, the organic rontent of the daily waste from your proposed abattoir may be equal to that of approximately 140,000 people. A copy of the Surgeon General's report 15 hereto attached for your informa- tion. “We desire to give you sufficient no- tice of these facts before you incur the expense of construction, You might wish to have a hearing on this matter, namely, the effect of the op- ‘erations of your plant on the sewage disposal system of the District, at this time rather than at the time of appli- caion for your license. If you desire such a hearing we shall arrange for it to meet your convenience.” At the building inspector’s office it was said today construction work was BOIng ahead without interruption on the Gobel site in Benning. The Tur- ner Construction Co. of New York, # was said, has put to work a full rew of laborers and carpenters. There was no reason to believe the fpacking house firm would not welcome the opportunity of an advanced hear- ing on the sewage question in view of the fact it already has been put to considerable extra expense in making its plans conform to certain standards previously imposed. Corporation Coun- sel Seal was eager to have the Senate District Subcommittee reopen its hearings on the anti-nuisance bill 50 that _he might go more fully into the Question of pollution and sewage. Secretary Ickes had‘demanded that the Commissioners take some steps to protect the public investment in the 4,125,000 sewage disposal plant which financed through a P. W, A. loan d grant. The proposed hearing, it sald today, is & partial answer to P. W. A. administrator. e disposal plant at Blue Plains, nearing completion, is a primary t affording only partial sewage ¥atment. Any considerable overload of industrial waste, it was feared, might necessitate the building of sec- onflary treatment features at an ex- Penise of several million dollars. There is also pending in Congress 8 Dill empowering the Commissioners to charge industries for any excessive amount of sewage tréatment at the disposal plant. NEWMAN CASE UP Benate Subcommittee May Act on D. C. Nomines 2 A Judiciary Subcommittee, headed by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah may meet this afternoon to act on the nomination of Hobart Newman to be & judge of the District Police Court. The other two subcommittee members are Senators Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky and Austin, Republican, of Vermont. n [ | that ington News WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, ening Star 1937. ko ok How New Taxes Boost Vafiety of Living Costs in Washington st “Be it ever so humble”’ your home this year will bear an additional cost between a $1.50 and a $1.75 real estate tax rate. Like the owner of this home at 5308 Thirteenth street, you will get the bad news some time in October in the real estate tax bill. D. . FIRE LOSSES DROPTO §294.204 Per Capita Costs Cut to 48 Cents — Figure Under “Very Low” Rating. Fire losses in the District dropped to $294,204 during the past fiscal year, a decline of 39 per cent from the total for the preceding 12 months, according to the annual report of Fire Chief Charles E. Schrom, which was | before the Commissioners today for study. The reduction in fire losses is ex- pected to revive agitation for a re- duction of insurance costs, a subject which caused a clash between the Kennedy subcommittee of the House District in April while it was consid- ering the new District tax program. Overcharges Denied. hat time J. Balch Moor, Distriet endent o. insurance, charged ire Insurance policy holders in Washington were overcharged $10.- 000,000 over a period of 12 years. His statement brought a vehement denial from Edward S. Brashears, repre- senting the National Board of Fire Underwriters, Chief Schrom reported that the average loss per fire in the past fiscal year was $75, a decrease of $51.89. The per capita loss was 48 cents, he said This figure is less than one-third of that established by fire control au- thorities as “very low,” said Chief Schrom. Fire Hazards Curbed. Notices for the abatement of fire hazards were issued in 10,681 in- stances, the report continued. The department made 237,625 fire preven- tion inspections during the year Twenty-one incendiary and 10 sus- | picious fires occurred and a number of arrests were made and five con- victions obtained. The Fire Preven- tion Division co-operated with the Po- lice Department in all such investi- gations, Chief Schrom said. The department received 5676 alarms, a decrease of 130 from the number for the previous year. The actual number of fires was found to be 3,784, a slight increase over 1936. There were 491 false alarms received, a decrease of 111, OLIVER OWEN KUHN LAUDED BY C. OF C. Bethesda Trade Body’s Resolution Cites Services of The Star's Late Managing Editor. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md., August 18.—Civic services of the late Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor of The Evening Star, were lauded in a resolution passed by the Board of Directors of the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, it was an- nounced today by John A. Overholt, executive secretary. The resolution cited his sincerity of purpose, solicitude for a suitable and creditable development of the com- munity and county in which he lived and the welfare of his fellow citizens, and lauded “the invaluable services rendered by him in his newspaper profession and as managing editor of The Evening Star, as founder and first president of the Montgomery County Civic Federation, as one of the founders and first president of the Bethesda Fire Department, and as an active and honorary member of the Chamber of Commerce.” His keen and active interest in civic matters and good government, his “wise counsel, courage and deter- mination to aid and protect his fellow man” contributed much not only to the accomplishments of the chamber, but to the welfare of the Bethesda district, the county and the Nation, the resolution pointed out. e COLUMBUS UNIVERSITY AWARDS SCHOLARSHIP Miss Jane Ellis Receives Honor in School of Account- ancy. A three-year scholarship in the School of Accountancy of Colum- bus University has been awarded to Miss Jane Ellis, 3026 Wisconsin ave- nue, Dean James Cushman announced yesterday. Miss Ellis was graduated from Holy Trinity Academy last June and was awarded the scholarship on the basis of her hihg scholastic standing there. Only 17 years old, she is one of the youngest students ever awarded a scholarship at the university. Newman was nominated by Presi- dent Roosevelt several weeks ago. Bhe will begin her studies in the Fall semester opening September 20. ~ r PRESIDENT URGES | HOSPTAL FUAD 'Appropriation of $600,000 to Start Work on Naval Medical Center Asked. | An appropriation of $600,000 | make & start on the proposed $4,850.- | 000 new Naval Hospital and Medical | Center in or near Washington was recommended to Congress late yes- | terday by President Roosevelt. | Subsequently Rear Admiral Per- ceval S. Rossiter, Navy Surgeon Gen- eral, denled published reports that a definite location for the new Naval | Hospital has been picked in the v:c-l inity of American University. | “There’s not a word of truth in it,” | | said the Surgeon General, who also is | chief of the Navy Bureau of Medi- {cige and Surgery. “We have made no selection as vet. All the sites we are considering are still receiving at- tention " The Surgeon General indicated he expects a choice will be made shortly | Congress several years ago passed | & law authorizing replacement of | buildings at the present Naval Hos- }pnzl near the foot of Twenty-third | street. Later, however, it was deemed | | advisable to put the new institution.| on a larger and more suitable site. Accordingly Congress last week | amended the original authorization by raising the limit of cost and allow- ing the Navy Department to select 8 new site on land either owned by the Government already or to be acquired. The budget estimate was trans- mitted yesterday, in accordance with the amended law, and probably will be included in the last deficiency supply bill when it reaches the Sen- ate within the next few days. The President at the same time | submitted a recommendation that the | National Park Service be authorized to spend $24,000 of its present ap- propriation to construct a steam line from the central heating plant to| the new National Gallery of Art, now under construction on Constitution avenue between Fourth and Seventh streets. “ILLEGAL” SALE LAID TO TREASURY Col. Cooper Asks Accounting for | Variance in Value and Price of Orchard in Suit. Col. Wade H. Cooper, president of | the closed Commercial National Bank | and Continental Trust Co. charged | in District Court yesterday that Treasury officials liquidating the two institutions obtained but an ifinitesi- mal fraction of the value of a 2,400~ acre Virginia apple orchard, which he said was disposed of for $15,000. He asked that they be required to account for the difference between the sale price and the true value of the orchard, which he placed at about $500,000. The orchard ‘was sold April 13, 1934, and the price was so far under the real value of the property as to make the sale “illegal, unlawful and in fraud of the depositors, creditors and stockholders,” he declared. He sued on behalf of himself and depositors, creditors and stockholders of the Continental and Commercial. In 1930 the Commercial took over the assets and liabilities of the Conti- nental. Among these was the or- chard, located in Fauquier County and containing about 28,000 trees. Cooper described it as one of the finest and best equipped in the State. When the Commercial closed in 1933 it was placed in the hands of a receiver. 1In the course of liquidation the orchard was disposed of. The suit yesterday was directed against Controller of Currency J. F. T. O’Connor, Robert C. Baldwin, former Teceiver of the Commercial, and John S. Bryan, former receiver of the Continental. They were sued both officially and individually. Cooper told the court that the three men acted in a fiduciary capacity and should have known the value of the orchard. He said the property origi- nally cost the Continental about $150,- 000. He was represented by Attorney George B. Fraser. Legion to Pick Beauty. A beauty queen among the young women attending the American Le- glon carnival in the 5700 block of Georgia avenue will be selected to- night. The winner will be announced Saturday night, the time set for the close of the event sponsored by the Fort Stevens Post, No. 32, composed of veterans of the Petworth and Brightwood aresa. € | di Carl J. Brown seems to be realiz as a motorist he will get soaked from two He must pay a personal tax on directions. his car computed at a $1.75 in $1.50 rate per $100 volue and a registra- tion fee based on weight before he gets his 1938 tags. i1 i ! ing that stead of a Amato is in business year. other m‘1‘\’010 District Tax Schedule I_[]BBYF[]RW P_A Is Effective Immediately $1.75 Per $100 Real Property Levy, Weight Charge on Autos and Busi- ness Privilege Import Outlined. The District tax bill, as signed to- ay by President Roosevelt, fixes a rate of $1.75 per $100 of assessed valuation on all real and personal property. This rate is effec- tive immediately and will be applied to all bills for the fiscal year ending next June 30, The insurance tax required all or- ons issuir contracts of in- 3 to secure annually, as of September 1, a license to operate in the District. This license will cost $25. Before March 1 of each year, each company must file a statement of op- erations, with filing fee of $20, for the year ending December 31 imme- diately preceding, and pay & 2 per | cent tax on fees and net premium re- ceipts. Insurance companies shall be exempt from all other taxes except those on real estate and fees fixed by the District insurance laws, These provisions shall not apply to non-profit relief associations and fraternal organizations issuing con- tracts exclusively to their members. Weight Tax on Autos. The $1 automobile license is abol and a weight tax substituted tax is $5 for not more than 3,500 pounds, $8 between 3.500 and 4.500 pounds, and $12 for more than 4.500 pounds. If the vehicle is equipped with other than pneumatic tires, the This | fee is double. Fees for trucks, trailers, tractors and buses seating eight or more persons range from $15 to $150, according to weight, and the fee is double in case of a vehicle not equipped with pneu- matic tires. The fee for motorcycles is $5. * Tags must be purchased for a cal- endar year beginning January 1. Half price will be charged for tags pur- chased after August 1 of any year. New tags may be used after December 15 of any year. Inheritance Tax Set Up. The act sets up an inheritance tax as follows: (a) One per cent of the clear value of property in excess of $5.000 received by lineal descendants | or ancestors of the decedent; (b) 3 per cent of the clear value of property in excess of $2.000 received by brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces of the dec- edent; (c) 5 per cent of the clear value of property in excess of $1,000 received by all other persons or or- ganizations. Under the estate tax clause, no tax over the amount collected by the Federal Government is levied. This merely enables the District to col- lect 80 per cent of the Federal tax from the United States. The business privilege tax provides that for the fiscal year 1938 all per- sons engaged in business in the Dis- tangible | |tan whose gross receipts exceeded $2.000 during the calendar year 1936 | | must procure a license for each sep- arate place of business (fee $10) with- in 60 days after passage of act. Statement Due in 30 Days. A statement of 1936 gross receipts must be filed with the District of Columbia assessor within 30 days after pascage of the act. A tax of 4-10 of 1 per cent on those receipts in excess of $2.000 must be paid. Pay- ment may be made in equal semi- annual installments during September and March. Railroads, railroad express com- panies. banks, public utilities, bond- ind. title and insurance companies and building and loan associations are ex- empt. Any tax paid the District upon tangible personal property for the fis- cal year 1937-38 (except on automo- biles) may be credited on the amount due under the business privilege tax. Terms used in this section are de- | fined as_follow: | individual, firm, partnership, associa- tion, corporation eign), trust, estate, receiver or any other group or combination acting as a unit, excepting those specifically exempt above. Labor Excepted. (b) The term “business” means the carrying on for gain or economic | | trade, business, profession, vocation or commercial activity except labor rendered by individuals—as employes —for wages, salary, etc. (¢) The term ‘“gross receipts” means total receipts received from any business including cash, credits and preperty of any kind without any deductions on account of costs, labor, services, interest or other expenses. Except, in connection with financial transactions involving the sale of notes, stocks, bonds and other se- curities, or the loan, collection or ad- vance of money, the discounting of bills or notes, gross receipts means the gross income earned. In the | case of commission merchants, at- | torneys and other agents, gross re- ceipts means the gross fees or com- missions received. In the case of stock and bond brokers, gross receipts means gross commission, fees or trad- ing profits. In the case of contractors, gross receipts shall mean total re- ceipts less money paid to subcon- tractors. § The act provides a penalty of 1 per cent a month for delay in paying gross receipts tax and fixes a maxi- mum fine of $1,000 per day upon conviction of doing business without a license. C.& P’sYear Loss From Use of Slugs Is Put at $37,000 Manager Hails New Act Banning Spurious Coins’ Use. Charles A. Robinson, general man- ager of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., disclosed today that his company had lost more than $37,- 000 last year through the use of slugs and spurious coins in the District. In expressing pleasure at the act signed yesterday by President Roose- velt making the use of such spurious coins illegal in the various types of vending machines here, Robinson de- clared: “It is not as difficult as it might seem to detect cases where slugs are being used to make calls at coin box telephones. Our greatest problem has been that we had no effective legal means to stop the practice. How- ever, with this new law in force we expect materially to reduce our losses.” The new act also provides a pen- alty for selling or owning counter- feit coins or slugs. London’s Passenger Transport Board reports it saved 2,800,000 gallons of gasoline during the bus strike, CHARLES E. BURNS RITES | Retired Grocer, Later Folger Em- ploye, Will Be Buried in Ar- lington Cemetery. Funeral services for Charles E. Burns, sr., 67, who died yesterday at his home, 5 Fifth street southeast, will be held at 9 am. Priday in St. Peter’'s Catholic Church. Burial will be in Abbey Mausoleum in Ar- lington County. Mr. Burns, a former grocer, re- cently had been employed at the Folger Library. A lifelong resident of this city, he was in the gro- cery business for many yéars on Capitol Hill. He retired about 10 years ago. He was widely known here, particu- larly by the grocers and market men of years ago. Mr. Burns, French War on Speeders. ~Because of the increasing number of acciderits in France the prefect of police has organized & new speed squad. i1 thid i il A. Amato, shoemaker, must pay 25 of one per cent tax on all gross receipts, not profits or salary, that run above $2,000 a men whether they are doctors, lawyers, bakers or candlestick makers. The term “persons” means any | (domestic or for- | | benefit, either direct or indirect, any | WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY | } Perhaps the same boat with or professionols, have been run. Olea Briguglio of 218 Upshur street hasn’t stopped to figure it out, but even the water which she is drinking costs more under the new set-up. Water rates hiked 25 per cent, not through . the tax bill, but the appropriation act— which means the same thing in the long —Star Staff Photos. JOBS LAUNCHED Members of Workers’ Alli- ance Move on Capitol After Mass Meeting. Jobless members of the Workers Alliance of America today lobbying on Capitol Hill for passage the Schwellenbach-Allen resolu- | tion calling on the Works Progress Administration to absorb all ployed. In groups of 10 the Alliance mem- bers went to the Capitol after David | Lasser, president of the organization, | | at a mass meeting on the Monument | Grounds, outlined legislative strategy for forcing the resolution to a vote in the House. Lasser estimated that at least 170 Congressmen would vote for the reso- lution and predicted it would pass the Senate if it could reach the floor. The lobbying is being conducted by an advance guard of 250 men and women who came here yesterday in buses from New York. The main body of the jobless army marching on Washington will reass hére Monday Lasser said. He said he will ask | police for a permit to stage a parade ‘uesday. National Capital Parks per- | mission for a Sylvan Theater mass| meeting Tuesday has already been | granted. The Alliance members and about 30 | members of the League of Physically | Handicapped, who are here protesting W. P. A, layoffs, slept last night on folding cots in the open on the Monu- ment grounds. Government officials still refused the loan of Army tents, used during the Boy Scout Jamboree. Spokesmen for the league, which threw in its lot with the larger group for the night, said a second confer- ence yesterday with Aubrey Williams, assistant to the W. P. A. administra- tor, had failed to net concrete prom- ises on their four-point program for reliet of crippled unemployed. gan of unem- Abandoned Baby Found. A colored baby girl, between 1 and 2 months old, was found aban- doned early today in a parked auto- mobile on Delaware avenue near O street southwest. She was wrapped in a blanket. The baby, discovered by Charles Rivers, 354 McLean avenue southwest, was taken to Gallinger Hospital. BAND CONCERTS By the Marine Band at the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santel- mann, assistant. Program, Marines’ Hymn. Overture, “Academic Festival,” Brahms Xylophone solo, “Czardas”_____Monti Oliver Zinsmeister. Morceau de Genre, “Souvenir”._Drdla Characteristic, “Funeral March of a Marionette” “Choral and Fugue Trombone solo, “The Gondolier,” Simons D. 8. Harpham. Fantasie, “Romeo and Juliet,” ‘Tschaikowsky Waltz, “Moonlight on the Alster,” “Carnival in Paris” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the Navy Band at the Navy Yard bandstand tonight at 7:30 pm. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant leader. Program. Overture, “In Bohemia”.. Romance, “Reve Angelique,” (“Kamenoi Ostrow”) __.Rubinstein Solo for cornet, “Inflamatus” (from “Stabat Mater”)__ .. ... __Rossini Musician Oscar Short. Grand scenes from the opera, iEwiplar oot Delibes Suite de ballet, “The Swan Lake,"” Tschaikowsky I Valse; II Dance of the Swans; III. Hungarian Dance. -Hadley ‘Tone poem from Uruguay, “Preludio” __ Calcavecchia Duet for flute and clarinet, “Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark”______Bishop R. Townsend and C. Brendler. Fatasia, “The Midshipmen’ Rhapsodie, “Celtic”.... enkins “The Star Spangled Banner.” PERMIT RACKET COSTS JAIL TERM Colored Man Sentenced to Six Months in Jail and Is Fined $300. Trapped by a detective who let his beard grow and wore rough work | Congr clothes to pose as a carpenter, Arthur | L. Blanks, colored, 1700 block of . was sentenced t to serve six months in jail and pay a $300 fine on charges of obtaining driving permits by misrepresentation. Blanks, described by police as the leader of a “ring” which charged high fees to get driving permits for per- sons unable to qualify themselves, pleaded guilty when arraigned in Police Court before Judge Isaac R. Hitt. Two other colored men—George R. Stevenson, 28. and Charles Love, 32, both of the 1300 block of New Jersey avenue—who were arrested on similar charges after Blanks was trapped, were to be arraigned later in the day. Long Investigation. The three arrests followed a Mng investigation, directed by Detective Sergts. William Fawsett and Walter Beck. of the alleged false driving permit ‘racket” that has annoyed officials for several weeks. The climax came when Detective Irving Lubore disguised himself to trap Blanks. Lubore said he was in- troduced to Blanks last Friday, and met him again Saturday. when he paid him $8 to secure a driving permit for him. Blanks was arrested in front of the Traffic Division as he went to ap- ply for the false permit, Lubore said. Stevenson and Love were apprehended shortly thereafter. Confession Reported. Fawsett said Blanks admitted se- curing 99 false driving permits. He was charged specifically with two cases, receiving the jail sentence on one and the fine, or an additional six months, on the other. The investigation will continue in an effort to capture all operators of the alleged “racket.” Fawsett said. The operators were said to use several sys- tems to secure false permits, some- times borrowing a friend's legitimate permit for use to obtain a duplicate, on which the client's name would be substituted, and occasionally taking the driving test themselves under a false name. Injured Twice FALL VICTIM HURT ON TO HOSPITAL. WAY JACK WILSON. His arm broken in a fall from a swing in his yard at 310 C street northeast late yesterday, this 7-year-old boy was hurt again in_an auto- mobile accident while bein, taken to Casualty Hospital. His mother, Mrs. Monte Wil- son, also was injured and both were treated at the hospital— the woman for a cut head and the child for brain concus- sion, in addition to the frac- 3 e s —Star Staff Photo. » PAGE B—1 S500,000 T0 BEGIN MEMORIAL WORK KILLED IN HOUSE Delay for Agreement on Site Presented as Cause of Action, ABANDONMENT OF PLAN IS DENIED IN DEBATE Boylan Loses Fight for Funds, 50 to 116, After Citing Com- promises Offered. BY WILL P. KE EDY. The item of $500,000 to start work on the $3,000,000 Thomas Jefferson iMPmOr\al was stricken from the third | deficiency appropriation bill by a vote [ of 116 to 50 in the House late yester- day. The amendment was offered by Representa Scott, Democrat, of California, who explained that there Wwas no intention of abandoning the plan to ere: but to de- fer action u: the controversy re- e had beep seftled defl- n support of the amend- Democrat. of Iowa to the desig method of | the threatened cherry trees, and Representative Knut- son, Republican, of Minnesota, Chairman Boy! Democrat, of New York of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission, emphasized that the President, the Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Appropriations Committee had a: proved the action of the commission under authority given them by act of He explained that the architect had been ructed to alter | the design to fit in with a more formal treatment of the Tidal Basin area, that the site had been moved south along the axis t Vhite House so as to not ir ri perimeter of the Tidal Ba. oid any possible destruc cherry trees Space Held Adequate. Boylan was heckled by about a dozen members and Representative Treadway insisted that if the memo= rial is shoved south of the original site selected, it must be placed either on the railroad tracks or in the Po- tomac River. Boylan responded that engineers of the Capital Park and Planning Commission had assured him that there is a distance of 1,000 feet to provide an adequate site for the memorial Various speakers, both Republicans | and Democrats, insisted that the ob- Jection is in no way against erecting | a fitting memorial to Jefferson, but posed location and in prot: despoiling the heauties | of the Tidal Basin area and destruc- | tion of the cherry trees that attract hundreds of thousands of visitors an- nually Keller, who recently filed a volumi- nous report against the use of the Tidel Basin area for the memorial, argued that it would be extremely difficult and expensive to get safe foundations for the memorial, the engineers saying that they would have 1o go up to 90 feet to reach bed- rock. He pointed out a similar ex- perience when the Lincoln Memorial was being erected and the excessive cost to strengthen the foundations when they started to give way. Sees Doubling of Cost. He declared that the ultimate co of the proposed Thomas Jeffers Memorial would be at least twice present authorization of $§3,000,00¢ He also told the House members that | erection of such a large memori | in that area would cause traffic con- gestion and it would be difficult and expensive to provide necessary ap- proaches. Amusement was caused during the debate by Boylan poking fun at hotel men and inn keepers for opposing the memorial because they feared they might lose a chance to sell some sandwiches, alcoholic drinks or coffee This allusion was to Representative Treadway, who is himself proprietor of Red Lion Inn in the Berkshires and who presented the opposition ot the Hotel Men's Association Representative Knutson proposed that the memorial take the form of a mausoleum, in which would be interred the Declaration of Inde- pendence and the Constitution, that | President Roosevelt be invited to make the dedicatory address, that in the mausoleum might be buried New Deal failures, etc. Representative O'Malley of Wis- consin said he was just seeing the light—that the Republican party ex- isted only for the purpose of saving the cherry trees. lecting VETERANS' DEPENDENTS TO GET MORE MONEY Roosevelt 8igns Bill Liberalizing Benefits to World War Sol- diers’ Families. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt signed yester- day a bill liberalizing benefits for dependents of World War veterans. The act increases from $35 to $37.50 the monthly compensation for a woman 50 to 65 years old whose husband died of service-connected ailments. The rate for a widow 65 or over is raised from $40 to $45. The rate for the dependent mother or father of a veteran whose death was service-connected is raised from $20 to $45 and for both parents from $15 to $25 each. Other changes are contained in the legislation, which is expected to cost $8,052,000 the first year.