Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1937, Page 21

Washington News he WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, Foening Stae WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION OCTOBER 29, 1937, W KK HUNDREDS CROWD TAX OFFICE HERE INTITHHOURRUSH Deadline for Paying Real Estate and Personal Levies Is Tomorrow. NO DECISION GIVEN ON EXCISE DEDUCTIONS Seal' Believes Gasoline, Amuse-| ment and 0il Assessments Pilots to Play Air Ball Game From Planes The first game of airball in local flying history is to be played at Col- lege Park Airport, College Park, Md., from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, as the Octo- ber flying event of the Washington Air Derby Association. The ariport will be marked off into four squares surrounding a central square. Each player will be given four tennis balls and will fly over the playing area at an altitude of not less than 300 feet, dropping one ball on each passage over the field. Scoring will depend upon the areas in which the balls come to rest. There | will be prizes for first and second places. The association will hold a Hal- loween party at 8:30 p.m. today in its clubhouse at the College Park Air- port. Can Be Taken Out. Hundreds of persons crowded the | office of Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers today in an eleventh-hour | | sonal property taxes beiore penalties | will be added to their bills. | Tomorrow noon is the deadline, ex- | cept that payments made by mail will | be on time if postmarked before to- | morrow at midnight. | Meanwhile, there still was no utfi—‘ cial decision clearing up the confusion as to what excise tax payments may be deducted from the gross receipts reported by individuals and business | establishments under the business | privilege levy. Corporation Counsel Elwood H.| Seal laid down the rule that if these | excise taxes were intended to be paid by the manufacturers, instead of by the consumer, they were not deductible from the gross receipt returns, but he said he felt the classification of the excise taxes was a question of fact.| not law, and should be answered by tax officials However, Seal and his assistant gave as their offhand opinion that the gasoline sales taxes, the tax on motor oil and the sales taxes on amusement | tickets, were deductible from gross receipts. They said they did not be- lieve taxes on tobacco, automobiles, | tires and tubes, cosmetics and the | taxes on liquor, wines and beers were | deductible since they appeared to be | levies on manufacturers rather than | on the consuming public—even though these nuisance taxes may be passed cn to the public. In the case of the business privilege | taxes, the Commissioners have ex-| tended the deadline to November 30. Allen F. Brooke, business privilege tax administrator, reported today he had received some 16,000 returns, or about | 2,000 more than had been estimated. Tax Collector Towers reported he had collected $173,510 in fees from persons having to pay for business privilege licenses, showing there were 17.351 such cases, obtaining permits up to the close of business yesterday. Brooke | had estimated the total would be about | 18,000. The Capital Transit Co. today paid the District $136,968.04 in real estate and bus mileage taxes. J. E. Eberle, | transit company vice president and | controller, said the company’s total tax bill for 1937 would be about five times this sum, or $681,508.45 Of the payment today, $93.161.18 was for the bus mile tax and | $43,806.86 was for the ment on the realty tax the company will have to pay an esti- | mated sum of $296,884.09 as the 4 per | cent tax on its gross revenue, a gaso- line tax estimated at $83.074.28 and | the District unemployment tax, esti- | mated to total $120,775.18 for the | year, TWO D. C. WOMEN INJURED IN CRASH Mrs. Tyers and Mrs. Driscoll Are | Hurt—Another Is Killed at New Market. ‘Two Washington women were among | nine persons injured yesterday in the collision of two automobiles near New Market, Va., in which a Ware (Mass.) woman was Kkilled Mrs. William R. Tyers, jr, 39, of | 2115 F street N.W.. driver of one of the machines, received a broken leg, and Mrs. W. B. Driscoll, 47, of 401 Twenty-third street N.W. suffered | fractures of the leg and ja Mrs, Tyers’ husband is an examiner in the Interstate Commerce Commission. The woman Kkilled was Mrs. Cath- | erine Harrington, 81, a passenger in | the car driven by Mrs. Tyers, Virginia State police said. All the injured were | taken to a Harrisonburg hospital. | Their homes are in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Miss Loraine Floyd, 24, of 826 Eleventh street N.E. and Donovan Zeh, 25, of Waynesboro, Va., were injured yesterday when the car in which they were riding ran off the road and over- turned a short distance this side of Laurel, -Md. Both were taken to Emergency Hospital, where Miss Floyd was treated for broken ribs, a dis- located shoulder and cuts to the foot and Mr. Zeh for a broken foot and body bruises. POLICEMAN'S DAUGHTER HEADS SAFETY GROUP Miss Emily Sirola Is Out to Make G. W. Freshmen “Traf- fic Conscious.” The daughter of a Washington po- liceman is out to make George Wash- ington University freshmen “traffic conscious.” Miss Emily Sirola, daughter of Of- ficer John Sirola. has been placed in charge of a group of about 90 mem- bers by Irwin Nathanson, president of the Freshmen Club, and she will re- port progress at the meeting of the group Wednesday. The program planned includes get- ting speakers, posters and movies to impress on the students the need for safe driving. ‘The public accuses college students congistently of reckless driving, Miss Sirola said, and the safe driving cam- paign will be an effort to eliminate the excuse that the students are not prfiperly educated in the fundamentals of good driving. rush to pay their real estate and per- | William Jefiries Chewning, DR, CHEWNING DIES: AT WALTER REED Well-Known Fredericksburg Physician Had Been Ill for Long Time. Dr. William Jeflries Chewning, 60, well-known Fredericksburg (Va.) phy- sician, died in Walter Reed Hospital last night after a long illness. A member of a distinguished Vir- ginia family, Dr. Chewning was born in Fredericksburg. He was educated at the old Fredericksburg College and was graduated in medicine from the University College of Medicine, now the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond. Dr. Chewning was the father of jr, who| married Margo Couzens, daughter of | the late Senator from Michigan For a number of years Dr. Chewn- ing held a warrant as a non-commis- sioned officer of the Army,.subject to call to active duty. In 1917 he volun- | teered and served in the World War | as a lieutenant in the Medical Corps, being stationed at Baltimore and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. | Besides his son, Dr. Chewning is | survived by his widow, Mrs. Anne Page | Chewning; two grandchildren, William J. Chewning, 3d., and Margo Anne Couzens Chewning, and a sister, Miss Agnes Eustace Chewning. 1 Dr. Chewning's father was Dr.| George H. Chewning, a Confederate veteran, who married Mary Isham Randolph Jeffries. | Funeral services will be held at 11 am. tomorrow at his late residence, 406 George street, Fredericksburg. Rev. Dr. Dudley Boogher of St. Georges BEpiscopal Church, Frederick. burg, and Rev. Dr. Richard Lancaster of the Presbyterian Church there will officiate. Burial will be in the Na-| tional Cemetery, Fredericksburg, with special services to be conducted by | American Legion, Post No. 55, and Battery F of the 111th Field Artillery. | U. S. SPENDS 7 PCT. FOR WAR DEFENSES . Lovette Tells Kiwanis Club Other Powers Expend 50 Per Cent of Budgets. While other powers are spending around 50 per cent of their budgets on national defense, the United States is expending only 7 per cent on its Army and Navy, Lt. Comdr. Leland P. Lovette, U. S. N, in charge of press relations at the Navy Department, told | a Kiwanis Club luncheon meeting yes- terday at the Mayflower Hotel Great anxiety prevails in the world, the officer pointed out, but the United States Navy is “hewing to the line and endeavoring to reach treaty strength, as guaranteed in a sacred covenant.” ‘This strength, he sai the Navy hopes to reach in five or six years, “A most pleasing ovation” has been given the officers and enlisted men of the Navy, he declared, in the awak- ened interest of the people in Navy Day, as evidenced by the great num- bers that turned out, despite unfa- vorable weather conditions here and elsewhere. Some 135,000 visitors went to the Washington Navy Yard to see the display, although it rained most of the day. Lt. Comdr. Lovette attributed this lively interest of the people in their Navy to “the general disquieting con- ditions in the world and the fact that one unit of the Navy is near the area of a great conflict—the United States Asiatic Fleet at Shanghai.” NEW TRIAL PLEA FILED IN SLAYING BY JANITOR Attorney Contends Judge Erred , in Admitting Confession and in Charge to Jury. A motion was filed in District Court today asking a new trial for William (Major) McAffee, 61, colored janitor, convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the slaying August 22 of Mrs. Henrietta Anderson, 36-year-old widow of 1633 L street N.W. McAffee’s attorney, Robert I. Miller, contended in the motion that Justice Jesse C. Adkins erred in admitting a written confession by McAffee and in giving the jury instructions which permitted return of a first-degree murder verdict. The motion will be argued next week. Should it be overruled the death sentence must be imposed. Fol- lowing sentence an appeal will be taken. MONUMENT TO CLOSE National Park Service officials an- nounced today that the Washington Monument will be closed at 6 p.m. to- morrow—four and a half hours ahead of schedule—because of the Halloween celebration. Sunday will be the last day this sea- son on which the Monument will re- main open to visitors until 10:30 p.m tarting Monday the shaft will osed every day at 4 p.m. under the winter schedule. ! PALMISANO BEGINS STUDY OF COSTS OF D. C. GOVERNMENT Society and General German Official Pals With Children at Greenbelt Seeks to Find Why Balti- | more’s Expenses Are Less Than Capital’s. MAY DRAFT OWN PLAN FOR REORGANIZATION Federal Influence on District Will Be Taken Into Consideration, Lawmaker Says. By JAMES E. CHINN. Chairman Palmisano of the House District Committee today began an intensive study of theg District gov- ernment to determine why its opera- tion and maintenance are more costly than the municipal government of | Baltimore, where he lives. Baltimore, with an area of 22 square miles greater than Washington and | a population larger by 200,000, Mr. Palmisano pointed out, is now op- erating on a budget of $46,236,059, whereas the Commissioners are seek- ing $49,700,000 for the District in the coming fiscal year. Actually the 1937 Baltimore budget amounts to $33,- 953,541, he said, because $12,282,518 must be set aside in a sinking fund to retire bonds. “The District has no bonded in- debtedness,” declared Mr. Palmisano. “Yet fts annual budget is far in ex- cess of the amount needed by Balti- more with its larger population, great- er area, more schools, more policemen and more firemen. “Must Be Something Wrong.” “There must be something radically wrong with the District government. 1 don't know yet what it is, but I intend to find out if possible. It may be due to inefficiency or an unnecessarily heavy overhead. What- ever the cause, something should be | done to remedy it.” Mr. Palmisano said he is aware of the fact that the Federal influence on the District requires it to spend more money than most municipali- ties on public improvements. But this factor alone, he declared, fails to explain the wide difference be- tween the annual budgets of Wash- ington and Baltimore. Voluminous data in the fiscal rela- tions report of the Jacobs Committee are being examined by Mr. Palmisano in the hope of finding a solution to| the problem. However, he plans to diz deeper and check official records of the operating and maintenance expenses in Baltimore with those in Washington. \ May Formulate Own Plan. Mr. Palmisano’s independent in- vestigation may result in the formu- lation of his own plan for reorganiz- ing the District government in the interest of efficiency and economy. Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, a member of the ‘House District Committee, made a similar study at the last session of Congress and turned out a reorganization plan which he intends to push at the ap- proaching special session. Another reorganization plan is being devel- oped by a special committee appointed by the Commissioners, headed by E. Barrett Prettyman, former corpora= tion counsel of the District. Mr. Palmisano indicated his reor- ganization plan would be designed to give the Commissioners complete con- trol over District finances. Neither the Budget Bureau nor Congress, he believes, . should dictate how revenue raised by taxation should be spent. “The Commissioners should be given more power and, above all, should have complete authority to determine the amount of the budget,” he said. “There should be no other influence over them, either from the Budget Bureau or Congress. I believe the only relation Congress should have with District finances is to fix the amount of the Federal payment toward District expenses. “Given such authority, the Com- missioners should be responsible only to the President, who appoints them. If they make a mistake or demon- strate their inefficiency the President could ask for their resignations.” Mr. Palmisano said his sole object in making the District government organization study is to find some method of reducing the present cost of government without sacrificing efficiency and economy. SECURITY GRANTS TOTAL 230 MILLION Aged, Blind and Dependent Chil- dren Account for 214 Million Given Since 1936. By the Associated Press Social security for more than 20,- 000,000 persons since February, 1936, cost $230,425,436 in Federal grants to States, the Social Security Board said today. Public assistance grants for the aged, the blind and dependent children ac- counted for $214,464,571 of the outlay. The balance of $15,960,865 paid the cost of administering State unemploy- ment compensation laws for 21,000,000 insured workers. ‘The needy and dependent supported by the grants now total 1,996,200, in- cluding 1,469,700 aged, 39,000 blind and 487,500 children. The board estimated that combined Federal, State and local contributions paid this group in October would ag- gregate $34,156.000, the bulk of it go- ing to old people. An analysis of August payments, the last month for which complete reports are available, showed the average paid to each elderly person was $18.54; to the blind, $24.66, and to families hav- ing dependent children, $30.74. Navy Has Exposition Role. Well versed in the business of dis- pensing glamour, naval recruiting of- ficers are calling to the attention of likely recruits that the Navg will play a prominent part in th& 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. | Guard will be used to guide those | activities, giving parties and entertain- Dr. Gottfried Feder, German Undersecretary of State and hous- is shown with Mary Kean Smith and Kenneth Brown, in their Greenbelt schoolroom at lunch ing expert, 3 6-year-old first grade pupils, time. HALLOWEENIARCH PLACES ASSENED Spots Where Sections Wil Form for Tomorrow Night's | Parade Announced. | Details of the formation and line) of march for the annual Halloween parade tomorrow night were made | public today by Harry P. Somerville, | general chairman of the Halloween | Committee. The parade will begin promptly at | 7:30 o'clock at Constitution avenue | and Fourth street N.-W., but all divi- | sions of the marching units are ex- | pected to be in formation at 7 o'clock. | Officers of the District National Guard will supervise formation of columns, | and non-commissioned officers of the reporting to their position in column. The Queen’s section will form on the south side of Constitution avenue at Sixth street NW. This division will include the Police Boys’ Club Band, Job’s Daughters unit, court jester, King of Revelry, the Queen and her court. Other Sections Assigned. Section 1 will form on the east side of Fourth street below Constitution avenue and the second section on Adams drive, east of Fourth street. Section 3 will get into position on Adams drive, and sections 4 and 5 on Washington drive, sections 6 and 7 will form on Madison drive. One of the features of the parade will be a performance of “the big apple” dance by 200 marchers from | the Southeast Community Centers. There will be entries from many schools, organizations and clubs, as well as the huge floats and balloon fig- ures entered by Washington business establishments and civic organization. An appeal to Washington parents and teachers to instruct children to refrain from defacing automobiles as part of the Halloween merry-making was issued today by George E. Keneipp, manager of the Keystone Automobile Club. Hits Auto Pranksters. He branded as “most obnoxious” such pranks as painting and marking cars with chalk and soap, breaking of milk bottles, breaking door handles, stealing radiator and gas tank caps and strewing glass and trash in the streets. To discourage such vandalism, churches and welfare agencies were urged by the Northeast Neighborhood Council to increase their Halloween ments that would keep youngsters out of trouble. A Halloween party will be given by the Polish Club of Washington tomor- row night at 8 o'clock at Stansbury Hall, 5832 Georgia avenue. Music, prizes and refreshments will be fea- tured. The New York State Society will hold a Halloween dance tomorrow night at the Shoreham Hotel. A Halloween benefit dance is scheduled to be held at Almas Temple tomorrow night at 10 o'clock to raise funds for the “children’s Christmas party.” Prizes will be awarded for the most attractive, most original and funniest costumes. _— ARIZONA PLANE CRASH LAID TO SNOW SQUALL Bureau of Air Commerce Makes Report in Wreck of Liner Killing Eight. Unexpectedly severe snow squalls with which the airplane was not equipped to cope successfully were blamed in a report made by the Bu- reau of Air Commerce today for the fatal crash of a Douglas 21-passenger airliner last April near McNary, Ariz., while en route.tc New York to be delivered to a Dutch airline. Eight persons died in the crash. The airliner, flown by Glen C. Moser and Walter J. Woolfolk, took off from Burbank, Calif., the morn- ing of April 3 on a proposed non-stop flight to Kansas City. It crashed in a forest on an 11,000-foot mountain and the wreckage was not found until April 6. ey, LABOR-SAVING NAVY Dishwashing Machines Ordered for New Ships. Slowly but surely the Navy is doing away with that nautical nuisance— dishwashing in the line of duty. It was only a single-line item in a list of naval purchases, but it meant a lot: Dishwashing machines—$20,779.60. Officials said the machin ere for new destroyers and one new cruiser. The delivery date is April 21, 1938. | enjoy “the more abundant life” at | \D. C. VICTIMS TO LOOK Dr. Feder Impressed, However, by Cen tral Heating, Electric Stoves and Abundance of Trees. “But it's so little,” sighed huge Dr. Gottfried Feder, undersecretary of | state of the German ministry of | economics and Nazi housing expert, as he gazed reprovingly at a bathtub | in one of the model houses at Green- belt, the Government’s newest sub- urban community development With vigorous gestures the visitor | laughingly indicated how would cramp his 6-foot, 200-pound body to| attempt to take a bath in one of the | tubs provided for those selected to Greenbeit. The small size of bathtubs many Americans are willing to get along with to economize on space has been | one of the amazing revelations to| Dr. Feder on an inspection of hous- ing developments in this country, he | disclosed. Interested by Some Features. His tour was climaxed 3esxerdayi by a visit to Greenbelt, where Com- munity Manager Roy Braden showed | him around the Farm Security Ad- | ministration project. He was “ex- tremely interested” in the arrange- ments for low-cost living, particularly in such technical angles as central heating plants and underground pas- sages to avert danger to children in | crossing the streets. As a professor in the German Tech- | nical School in Berlin Dr. Feder is | recognized as an expert in housing and settlement developments. He praised the installation of rodern | conveniences at Greenbelt, such as| central heating and electric stoves for cooking, as better than in similar developments in Germany, but be- lieved German housing construction principles were better. For instance, he said German ex- perience had shown that the type of flat roofs, predominant at Greenbelt, | | who accompanied him on the tour. | less situation at Greenbelt caused b_v‘ A true camera fan, Dr. of his Greenbelt home. | were “not so good,” because they | tended to concentrate summer heat on the house. Carrying a camera with him, Dr. Feder made a picture record of his visit to Greenbelt, exhibiting keen pleasure in snapping children of the | 60 families already installed in the community at play and in their school- | room. Children Laugh for Pictures. He got along fine with the children, even though they could not under- stand his German and he could un- derstand little of their English. Amused that such a big man would | stoop down his knees just to make a picture, they laughed ndturally for his camera. “Thank you, very nice, very inter- esting” was about the extent of Dr. Feder's remarks in English His further observations were translated by Herbert Blenkenhorn, second sec- retary of the German Empassy here, The abundance of trees and the absence of fences particularly im- pressed the German visitor. As his automobile pulled up in front of Mr. Braden's office he dashed away to photograph a group of trees against the cloudy sky. Admonished by Mr. Blankenhorn that Mr. Braden was waiting to show him around the com- munity, he retorted that this was the United States and he could #ke what pictures he liked without waiting for official escort. Dr. Feder diplomatically declined t> enter into discussion of the pet- a temporary ban against dogs and| cats pending a community election | to determine whether such animals | will te allowed there. He only re- marked that there is no prohibition against dogs and cats in similar Ger- man developments. AT THUG SUSPECT Liquor Store Owners May Go to Philadelphia to Try to Iden- tify Albert Gregg. Victims in a series of liquor store hold-ups several months ago probably will go to Philadelphia within the next few days in an attempt to identify Albert W. Gregg, alias Russell Wilson, held for murder, in connection with the crimes. Gregg, who fatally wounded a cus- tomer during a hold-up attempt in Wanamaker's Department Store Mon- day, already has been tentatively iden- tified by pictures as the bandit who robbed a number of liquor dealers here. An Associated Press dispatch said the prisoner also has been questioned in the Matson kidnaping in Tacoma, ‘Wash. Philadelphia detectives said among many stories told by Gregg was one of a department store hold-up in Seattle “some time ago.” — TWELFTH FALSE ALARM BRINGS SYSTEM CHECK Electricians From Headquarters Report That All Connections Are in Order. The twelfth false alarm within five weeks was turned in last night at the Washington Auditorium. The tenth was turned in last Fri- day, only a few hours after a special police guard, on duty for 10 days in an effort to catch the culprit, had been called off duty. Another alarm was sounded Monday night. Electricians from the alarm head- quarters, investigating the possibility that faulty wiring may be responsible, reporetd to police today that all the connections are in grder. YORKTOWN READY New Aircraft Carrier to Start Shakedown Cruise January 8. The Navy Department announced today the new aircraft carrier York- town, commissioned last month at Newport News, Va., would take her shakedown cruise from January 8 to March 7. New reduction gears, which the Navy required the builders to replace, will be installed at Norgfolk Navy Yard beginning next May Details of the cruise were not disclosed. 550 MAGIC SHOW TICKETS BOUGHT Performances to Help Raise Free Lunch Fund for Needy Pupils to Be Given Next Week. Although somewhat disappointed with the early returns from the Charity Ball at the Mayflower Hotel October 26, the Citizens’ Emergency Committee was encouraged today by the excellent response of District school children to the magic shows opening at the Belasco next week. As tickets for the event went on sale yesterday, children in 17 schools bought 550 of the 50-cent admissions, } each of which will provide seven free hot lunches for some of the 5,000 underfed schoolmates. “This fine first day sales indicates the shows should be a tremendous success,” declared Mrs. John Boyle, jr., committee chairman. Special arrangements have been made with school authorities to let the children off early from school to see the matinees planned daily, be- ginning November 1. There will also be night performances for adults. The exhibitions will feature local talent and several well-known out- of-town artists. The committee is trying to raise $67,500 to cover the non-labor costs of the free-lunch project for vhe school year. The Works Progress Ad- ministration is providing the labor | costs. MNEIL PAROLE PLEA BEFORE BOARD TODAY Convicted Park Savings Banker Enters Second Application for Lorton Freedom. A second hearing on an applica- tion for the parole of Benedict M. Mc- Neil, convicted of a charge of con- spiracy to embezzle in connection with the now defunct Park Savings Bank, was to be considered by the District Parole Board, meeting today at the Lorton Reformatory. The board denied the application at a hearing last January, when, without discussing the merits of the case, it held that McNeil had not served enough of his term. McNeil was sen- tenced to serve from eight months to four years. His term began in April, 1936. McNeil was assistant cashier of the bank and was indicted along with his father, now dead, and' Robert Stuntz, who committed :méie. The board scheduled hearings 25 other pris- oners in addition to §cNeil. Feder went down on his knees to get a natural picture of this youngster at play in front —Star Staff Photos. Greel'Lbel't?S;r;allABathtubs I Amuse Nazi Housing Expert GRAVEI'I'Y P[] [ | NT AIRPORT PUSHED Smith Will Seek Action on Bill at Special Session Next Month. Representative Smith, Democrat, of Virginia announced today he would seek action at the forthcoming spe- cial session of Congress on his bill to establish the long-proposed airport for the District at Gravelly Point, on the Potomac. With the support of President Roosevelt, who indicated he favored the Gravelly Point site when he ve- toed a bill passed at the last session of Congress providing for extension of the Washington Airport, Mr. Smith believes his measure has an excellent chance of being enacted into law. Before House Committee. ‘The Smith bill now is pending be- fore the House Public Buildings and Grounds Committee. As soon as Con- gress convenes in special session No- vember 15 Mr. Smith said he would ask Chairman Lanham to hold hear- ings on the measure and start it on its legislative journey. ‘There also is a probability that steps will be taken at the extra session to revive the plan of the former Air- port Commission to establish an air- | port at Camp Springs, Md., 11 miles below Washington in Southern Mary- land. The President in his veto mes- sage revealed he favored two airports for the District—one near the city and another more distant, which could be used when fog envelops the Potomac and makes landings and take-offs at the Gravelly Point site hazardous Congress should lose no time in solving the District’s airport prob- lems when it reconvenes, Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, de- clared today. The New York Senator, at the last session, actively supported the bill which President Roosevelt vetoed for purchase of the existing Washington airport, and said today he still favors that proposal. He emphasized that he is not against the other bill for develop- ment of the terminal at Camp Springs, but insisted that the need | still exists for a landing field closer to the city to take care of travel to and from nearby States. The Senator said that a large per- centage of the air travel is to New York and other cities of about that distance, and that too much time would be required on those trips if the planes started from an outlying airport. Would Appropriate $2.500,000. The Smith bill authorizes an ap- propriation of $2,500,000 out of Fed- eral funds to finance the proposed Gravelly Point airport. The measure also provides for creation of & Na- tional Airport Commission to estab- lish and maintain the airport. The commission would be composed of the Assistant Secretary of Com- merce in charge of aviation, the di- rector of national parks for the Dis- trict and the district engineer for rivers and harbors for the District. ANTI-TRUST LAWS ARE BEING STUDIED Advisers Deliberate on How to Meet President’s Desire for Effective Enforcement. By the Associated Press. Administration legal advisers ap-| proached today, with careful deliber- | ation, the problem of how to meet President Roosevelt's desire that anti- trust laws work more effectively. ‘The Federal Trade Commission, it was forecast in some quarters, will reiterate its long-standing recom- mendation for new legislation to the special session of Congress. Informed persons, however, said no definite conclusions have been reached. Officials believe, they said, that the question is so big and com- plicated that it may be sometime next year before there can be any eflective consideration. “In the first place,” said one ad-| viser, “it’s a problem to define a monopoly, and then as big a problem to determine whose ‘monupoly’ is to be broken.” The Trade Commission has recom- mended that section 7 of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act be amended to pro- vidé “that no enterprise engaged in interstate commerce be permitted to acquire control over the assets of a competitor, whether directly or in- directly, if the combined assets or output, after the union, would exceed a specified percenfage of the total assets or output offthe industry, ex- cept under certain conditions.” B PAGE B--1 PLANNERS INDORSE REVISED DRAFT OF NEW ZONING BILL Committee Instructed Co-operate in Seeking Early Passage. GUARD ARMORY PLAN IS BACKED AT MEETING to Commission Is Ready to Sign Park Extension Agreement—Action on Reservoir Delayed. Final revision of the draft of a new zoning law to modernize Wash- ington’s 1920 statute received the approval of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission today The commission instructed its Leg- islative Committee, comprising its chairman, Frederic A. Delano, and its executive officer, Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, to co-operate with the District Coms= missioners and the Zoning Commis- sion in seeking to have the bill passed by Congress at an early date. Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, ex officio member of the commission and chairman of the Senate District Committee, has agreed to sponsor the legislation. The commission also discussed the local airport question and instructed its Legislative Committee to co-operate with the Airport Commission. The commission also directed its Legislative Committee to c0-0} te with the District Commissioners in seeking construction of a Nati 1 Guard Armory at the end of East Capitol street near the Anacostia River. Disapproval was voiced of a plan to lease some of the waterfront property in East Potomac Park to house small craft. Action on the proposal to const a sub reservoir at the old Civil fort, Fort Totten, near the Sold Home, was deferred, the commis instructing its staff to co-operate the District Commissioners and M Walter D. Luplow, district engi for the War Department for the W ington area in an effort to seel other site. Park to Be Extended Meanwhile, the commission was pared to sign agreements with land authorities whereby $200,000 v be advanced for the extension of Roc Creek Park in that State, from Cor necticut avenue to Garret iers | ton Memorial Pa | Key Bridge, in V. considered actively | The $200,000 is to purchase land in | Rock Creer Valley and. under | capper-Cramton Park Purc one-third of this sum is an ou t gift to the Mary authorities, which two-thirds represents a loan Collateral will be bonds issued w the sponsorship of the Maryl National Capital Park and Plan: Commission. The nation: sion has already approved the takin lines and apj sal of “unit No. 3," as it is officially known, and the s ing of the necessary papers will go forward today Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the commission, said today that with the turning over of $200,000 to the M: | land commission, the grand total disbursed for Maryland, under the Capper-Cramton Act will be $1,000.- 000 for the park development of S Rock Creek and Cabin John Valle; ‘Take Part in Negotiations. Taking a prominent part in the de- | liberations leading up to today’s ne- gotiations have been Irving C. Root, chief engineer of the Maryland- National Capital commission; Ci Walker, land purchasing officer that body, and H. Tudor Morsell, la | purchasing officer of the Natior Capital commission. The member of both commissions has ratified the succeeding steps in the negotiations Representing a further step of co- operation with the Maryland au- thorities, the National Capital com- mission empowered its chairman, mission empowered its Mr. Delano to call a conference, at an undetermined date, of leaders in the District and Maryland to consider such mutual problems as floods, stormwater dispos- al, sewage, traffic, etc. Included in this representation will be Maj. Luplow, officials of the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- sion, District, State and county officials. John Nolen, jr., director of plan- ning of the National Capital commis- sion, Mr. Settle and a member of the National Resources Committee will confer with citizens of Prince Georges County on mutual problems at 8 p.m November 11, at Hyattsville. This action is the result of a letter written recently by W. Carroll Beatty, secre- tary of the Prince Georges Municipal Association, to Secretary Ickes, who turned it over to the planners for their consideration Parkway Inspected. ‘The commission late yesterday made an official inspection of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. be- tween the Arlington and Key Bridges, where the Bureau of Public Roads has made a roadbed by filling in the area, and between the Key and Chain Bridges, where land is expected to be bought shortly for the extension of the parkway upstream. The commission’s attention was directed by Mr. Nolen to suggestior of the Potomac Electric Power Co. to cut down about 166 trees along the Pali- sades of the Potomac River, near the Dalecarlia Reservoir. The commission 1s expected to reiterate its traditional stand that i vigorously opposes the cutting down of trees unnecessarily. The public utilities firm says it is necessary to cut down the trees because they interfere with its power lines. The request is now before C. Marshall PFinnan, superintendent of the Na- tional Capital Parks, for action. Norman C Brown, associate land purchasing officer of the commission, laid before his colleagues a number of proposals for the purchase of land fcr the extension of ¥ae park, playground and recreation system in the District. kway, upstream ginia, also is bei