Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy, with occasional rain’ tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight; lowest tonight about 42. Temperatures today—Highest, 65, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 36, at midnight. From the United States Weather Bureau report. Full details on Page A-2. Closing New York Markets, Page 16. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ‘From Press to Home Within the Hour’ Most people in Washington have The Star delivered to their homes every evening and Sunday morning. Che WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940—FORTY PAGES. **** Foening Star (®) Means Associated Press. 88th YEAR. No. 35,029. THREE CENTS. House Insists On Wage-Hour Fund Cuts 148-115Teller Vote Upholds Committee, Retains Slashes By the Associated Press. The House stood squarely behind its Appropriations Committee to- day and insisted on slashing Pres- ident Roosevelt's recommendations fer wage-hour law administrative expenses. It defeated, on a teller vote of 115 to 148, an attempt by Representative Casey, Democrat, of Massachusetts to restore a $1,035,000 cut in budget estimates for wage-hour salaries for the fiscal year beginning July 1. That ‘would have raised the total for sal- aries to $5,865,000. The Appropriations Committee had asked the House to cut a total of $1,080,000, including the salary item—from the President’s total re- quest for $6,185000 for the wage- hour administration because of a “confused administrative problem” &nd because the law needed amend- ' ments. The proposed total was $1,643,800 more than the current ap- propriation. Fleming’s Position Described. Col. Philip Fleming, wage-hour administrator, was represented in the House earlier as believing that if Congress failed to provide ade- quate funds for enforcement of the wage-hour law the law should be repealed. Col. Fleming's position was described by Representative Casey. Representative Casey quoted Col. Fleming as saying, “If the law isn’t effectively and efficiently enforced, it ought to go off the books.” Representative Casey said that, while Government departments usually could adjust their operations to fit their pockets, the situation was different with the Wage-Hour Ad- ministration. “This is a vote for the wage-hour law or against it,” he asserted. Army of Inspectors. Replying, Representative Houston, Democrat, of Kansas said that if he thought the cuts would impair efficiency of tte act, he would sup- port Mr. Casey's proposal. “But I don’t think it is necessary to send out an army of inspectors when only 7 per cent of industry is complained against,” Mr. Houston said. Representative Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri said he did not believe in “destroying” a law by failure to appropriate money, and Representa- .tive Marcantonio, American Labor, of New York accused the Appropria- tions Committee of creating a “dic- tatorship” over funds. Administration supporters of the National Labor Relations Board and the Wage-Hour Division had rallied forces in an uphill battle to restore cuts in appropriations for the be- leaguered agencies. Cut Restoration Loses. On a test vote late yesterday, friends of the Wage-Hour Division | lost their first attempt to restore | proposed cuts for that agency. The | House rejected, 126 to 78, the re- quest of Chairman Norton of the House Labor Committee to add $140,000 to the Labor Department's travel expense fund. Other fights were brewing over the Appropriation Committee’s $85,- 000,000 proposal for the National Youth Administration — $15,000,000 below the fund for the cugrent year —and its move to eliminate 273 C. C. C. camps and save about one- fourth of the current $294,955,000 expenditure for that purpose. The House voted yesterday, 360 &o 10, in favor of a special parlia- mentary rule permitting considera- tion of the N. Y. A. appropriation. The decision was viewed as an in- dication that the chamber would authorize funds for the agency. Representative Fish, Republican, of New York described Aubrey Wil- liams, National Youth administra- tor, as “one of the pinkest men in the country.” He objected to N. Y. A. assistance for a proposed Latin American tour by a youth orches- tra directed by Leopold Stokowski, whom Representative Cox, Demo- (See APPROPRIATIONS, Page A-3) e During Leisure Hours The Star, every evening and 8unday morning, is in the homes during most of the family’s leisure hours when there is time to read the news and advertisements. Yesterday The Star was de- livered by regular carrier into 89,604 homes in the City and 28,875 homes in the Suburbs of ¢Washington, besides the thousands of Stars purchased from newsstands and news- boys and carried home. Yesterday’s Advertising Local Display The Evening Star____ 2nd Newspaper._.. 3rd Newspaper. 4th Newspaper_______ Lines. 32,089 14,834 13,464 8,939 Yesterday’s Circulation The Evening Star Tues.,, March 26, 1940_*157,649 Tues., March 28, 1939_*153,709 Raging Fire Sweeps Old St. Peter's Church; Destroys Roof of Historic Southeast Building Scene today as firemen from all available engine companies fought a spectacular blaze that destroyed the roof and wrecked the interior of old St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church at Second and C streets SE. This view was made from the House Office Building. U. S. to "Lose Shirt’ Under Trade Pacts, Vandenberg Warns New Authority to Cope With Foreign Penalties Urged by Senator BACKGROUND— Senate is considering House- approved bill to extend for three years administration’s authority to. negotiate. reciprocal. trade agreements with other nations and make them effective without congressional ratification. Low- tariff aspects of trade pacts have been criticized, especially in agri- cultural West, but President Roosevelt has called them essen- tial part of any world trade re- organization after European war ends. By the Associated Press. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan told the Senate today that the United States was about to “lose its shirt” under the recip- rocal trade program. The Michigan Senator, in a speech against continuing the administra- tion’s trade policy, made these six contentions: . 1. The trade agreements law is un- constitutional, 2. It is “economic dictatorship come to America.” 3. It is driving the country to a basis of uncompensated low tariffs “which will ultimately wreck us.” 4. War and post-war trade compe- titions involve a multitude of dan- gerous trade weapons which the agreement law cannot touch. 5. It 1s not working and cannot work as intended. 6. The alternative is to provide “a concentrated foreign trade author- 1ty which can cope with all the ex- ternal trade penalties which Amer- ican export increasingly confronts.” “Real Barriers” Stressed. Senator Vandenberg said that in a yorld at war, or in the “harsh” competitive conditions of post-war readjustment, tariff rates covered by (See TRADE, Page A-5.) The Battle Of the Census « + . who started the census fight? + + . who framed those trouble: some questionsP « « + who stands to win or lose most in the struggle? You'll find the answers in the first of three daily articles on . ®Returns from newsstands not deducted and no samples included. Y Page A-2." —A. P. Photo. Tinkham Assails Dewey's Views on Foreign Policy Candidate Accused Of Repudiating G. O. P. Efforts in Congress By the Associated Press. Representative Tinkham, Repub- lican, of Massachusetts said in a statement today that Thomas E. Dewey had “evidenced his utter lack of sympathy with traditional Ameri- can foreign policies” and was “un- fitted to be the Republican candi- date for President.” The Boston Representative, who has served 25 years in the House. asserted the New York district at- torney in a recent speech “publicly indorsed the internationalist poli- cies of President Roosevelt.” Remarking that Republicans of ‘Wisconsin, Illinois and Nebraska would elect delegates to the national convention within the next two weeks, Representative Tinkham, a member of the House Foreign Af- fairs Committee, continued: “They will have an opportunity to play a part in keeping the United States out of foreign entanglements and foreign wars by selecting dele- gates to the national convention who are known to be opposed to the internationalism of President Roose- velt and Secretary of State Hull.” Repudiation of Efforts Seen. Mr. Dewey, he said, “practically stated that there is no difference between the foreign policies of the “Two.Firemen Are Hurt in General Alorm Blaze Raging flames swept through his- toric St. Peter’s Church in South- east Washington today, leaving much of the gray stone structure a charred skeleton. ‘The picturesque roof of the build- ing, at Second and C streets SE., was completely destroyed and the interior of the nave was soaked +with thousands of gallons of water and littered with charred timbers. Firemen summoned by a general alarm fought the stubborn blaze for more than an hour before Fire Chief Engineer Stephen T. Porter an- nounced the flames were under con- trol. Second Oldest Parish Here. The church, center of the second oldest Roman Catholic parish in the city, had been undergoing redecora- tion in preparation for the celebra- tion this year of the 120th anniver- sary of the founding of the parish. The church pastor, the Right Rev. E. J. Connelly, who dashed several times into the blazing structure soon after the fire was discovered, later was reported prostrated and under medical care. Two firemen were injured fighting the blaze and scores of others nar- rowly escaped injury when the slate shingles began flying from the roof. Candles Still Burning. Charred beams were all that re- mained of the roof of the building when the flames were brought un- cer control. Sunlight streamed through the roof onto the sanc- tuary which miraculously had escaped serious damage. Streams of water filled the church floor to levels of two feet in many areas. The flames on at least a dozen vigil lights and altar tapers remained flickering while water dripped from the soaked timbers left in the roof. The sanctuary lamp had toppled to the floor and lay in a shattered heap in front of the altar. Firemen continued to work with hose lines inside the huge nave long after the principal part of the blaze had been battled under con- trol. 100 Police Hold Back Crowds. ‘Thousands of spectators were at- tracted by the flames and huge clouds ot smoke which could be seen for blocks. Emergency calls brougnt more than 100 policemen to the-area to hold back the crowds and route traffic around the scene of*the blaze Many of the beautifully stained windows of the church werq shat- tered, though the larger ones on the lowest level appearegy to have es- caped serious damag The interioir of the church’s main spire, which towered nearly 100 feet in the air, was virtually d®stroyed, and at least one of the smaller spires was toppled by the water pressure turned on the blazing rafters. $50,000. The loss was covered by in- surance. In addition to the Jamage sustained by the $100,000 structure itself, a number of highly valuable sacramental vessels and other ar- ticles in the intérior were destroyed or seriously damaged. Discovered by Painters. The fire was’ discovered shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. Two painters, using blow torches on the roof to remove oid paint, saw smoke curling from beneath slate about 50 feet away from their scaffolds. The workmer—Glenn Shorb of 3554 Tenth street N.W., and Fred Gray of 4212 Hayes street NNW.— climbed to the ground and hurried to an alarm box'‘on a nearby corner, but a passer-by, also seeing the smoke, already had turned in an alarm. F By the time firemen arrived the smoke had spread in patches gen- erally over the roof, and it was evi- dent the attic of the structure was completely in flames. First streams of water shot to the roof from high-pressure hoses loos- ened the slate shingles and sent them showering down on firemen below. Flames Leap 75 Feet High. Breaking through the holes left by the falling shingles, flames shot 75 feet in the air and smoke bil- lowed in clouds, even shrouding the Capitol grounds. Two water towers were brought into play, the first about 30 min- utes after the fire was discovered and firefighters had completed the precarious task of battering holes in the roof. Climbing back down the ladders the firemen were show- ered with sparks and pieces of slate as the powerful streams shot from the tower hoses. As the sparks began flying through (See POLITICS, Page A-4) Summary of age.| Washington and Vicinity Serial Story-B-11 Comics __B-16-17 | Society Editorials - A-12| Sports A-19-21 Finance .. A-16( Woman’s Page, Lost, Found.B-11 B-10 Obituary ___A-14 Foreign British seen setting trap for Nazi naval force. Page A-2 Envoy’s recall hints French-Soviet break. Page A-4 Two Nazi planes shot down in flames, British claim. Page A-4 Canada backs Mackenzie King's war policies. Page A-5 Nationa) Vandenberg assails trade pacts in Senate speech. Page A-1 House retains slash in Wage-Hour appropriations. Page A-1 ‘Woodring explains warplanes export policy. Page A-1 ‘Wisconsin - Garnerites cheered by ,nl.nmpnty battle. - Roosevelt plans special relief sage to Congress. A-§ 2 | Winning Contract. (See FIRE, Page A-3) Today’s Star D. C. budget slashed $1,317,701 to $48,291,717. Page_ A-1 3 Montgomery board acts tomorrow on levy and budget. Page A-2 Armed motorist frustrates 3 stop- sign bandits. Page A-5 Senate committee action on racing bill postponed. Page B-1 Single memorials section set up in park system. Page B-1 Editorial and Comment * This and That. Page A-12 Answers to Questions. Page A-12 Letters to The Star. Page A-12 David Lawrence. Page A-13 Alsop and Kintner. Page A-13 Prederic Willlam Wile. Page A-13 Charles G. Ross. Page A-13 Constantine Brown. PageA-13 Miscellany Service Orders, Vital Statistics. Nature’s Children. | Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. Page B-8 Page B-7 Uncle Ray’s Corner. Cross-Word Pussle. Police estimated the damage at| Woodring Defends Warplane Sales, Denies "Coercion’ Air Corps to Benefit By Development, ’House Group Told By the Associated Press. A Secretary Woodring today coupled & stout defense of the Army's new foreign sales policy for late-model airplanes with a denial that the policy had been adopted under coercion and a statement that “as long as I am Secretary ofeWar I am not going to be pushed around.” ‘The War Department chief told the House Military Committee that the revised policy had been ‘gorked out by him and his advisers “with- out coercion or pressure from any- body.” His statement followed a question by Representative Andrews, Republican, of New York as %o whether there had been friction be- tween Secretary Woodring and & committee recently authorized by President Roosevelt to co-ordinate foreign plane purchases with domes- tic needs. Secretary Morgenthau of the | Treasury is the liaison between this committee and the White House and there had been reports of pos- sible conflict between the com- mittee's wishes and those of Secre- tary Woodring. Will Aid Development. In support of the new policy, Mr. | Woodring told the committee that it would assist the United States Army to keep its airplane develop- ment constantly modern. At the same time he declared the Army already has “possibly half a dozen types of planes superior to any in the world.” The new policy provides for the sale to foreign nations—principally France and Britain—of the newest types of military aircralft actually in production. ‘This policy, Mr. Woodring testi- fied, “should assist in maintaining us progressively in a situation where we will have the most modern equipment.” Achievement of su- perior types to date was attributed by the War Department chief to the design competition and competitive bidding features of the Army’s air- craft procurement policy. Secretary Woodring did not spec- ify which types he considered to be superior, nor give particular points of superiority. Will Reveal No Secrets. With regard to the new foreign sales policy, the Secretary said that it would not result in disclosure of military secrets ffor in delay to the Air Corps expansion program. “When it is to the advantage of the national defense the War De- partment will negotiate for deferred deliveries on contract planes,” Sec- retary Woodring testified. “If manu- facturers take advantage of foreign orders, then prior to release for sale abroad, manufacturers shall agree to accept change orders on existing War Pepartment contracts. “The Government mudt be fully protected and any authorized delays must not interfere with the de- livery of equipment for units im- (See PLANES, Page A-5.) Stocks Climb $1 to $4 Under Steel Leadership By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 27—A brisk wave of buying swept the stock market today, shoving favored secur- ities $1 to $4 a share higher. Leading the climb were steels, motors and soft drinks shares, while the recently favored aircrafts in- creased their gains by small amounts. | The rally had its origin in action of directors of United States Steel Corp., who yesterday, after the market had closed, Wall Street with the declaration of & $§1 a share dividend on the common stock, the first since 1937. Buying orders in steels were await- ing brokers when the market opened today. United States Steel quickly rose $3.50 from yesterday's close of $54.38 a share; Bethlehem Steel climbed $3 to $77; Youngstown went above $4025 from $38.12. Chrysler jumped more than $2 at $86.75. Loft, which controls Pepsi- Cola, gained $1 and White Rock and Canada Dry each moved up more than $125, all three hitting new highs for the year. stocks in Pag added more than $1 to mew- 'B-17 | tions. 10 Woman Driver Has Mania for Head-OnCrashes By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., March 27— A story of a woman who apparently got a thrill out of repeatedly driving automobiles into head-on collisions while+under the influence of nar- cotics was disclosed today with an- nouncement that she and 219 other alleged “dope addicts” have been barred from Pennsylvania’s high- | ways. fler escapades were brought to the ntion of the State Department .of Revenue, Secretary William J. Hamilton, jr., said, by residents of a central-State county who reported that she “seemed to have a mania for crashing head-on—luckily at low speed " ; “She somehow escaped apparent injury herself,” Mr. Hamilton added, “but left her victims on the high- ways while she sped off into the night. She finally confessed causing at least four accidents.” There were no fatalities. ‘Hatch Bill Clears lfs First Hurdle To House Action Judiciary Subcommittee Reported Unanimous; Few Changes Made By the Associated Press. The Senate-approved Hatch bill, curbing political activities of State employes paid in whole er in part with Federal funds, cleared its first hurdle in the House today. By a vote which members said was unanimous, a House Judiciary Subcommittee approved the legisla- tion with some changes. These changes were praised high- ly by Representative Dempsey, Dem- ocrat, of New Mexico, who has been fighting with Senator Hatch, Demo- crat, of New Mexico for the curb on political activity by Federally-paid State employes. The subcommittee struck out a Senate amendment exempting from the bill's provisions employes of educational, religious, eleemosynary, philanthropic and cultural institu- tions. Representative Dempsey said this amendment was an “invitation” to educational employes to get into politics. The House group also struck out a Senate amendment which would per- mit affected State employes to seek nomination for office in primary campaigns and not require them to resign from their employment un- less they won the nomination. Mr. Dempsey said there was some ques- tion as to whether this amendment would affect the existing Hatch Act, which restricts political activities of purely Federal employes, and that advocates of the legislation wanted to “take no chances” with it. Representative ~Dempsey said Chairman Walter, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, and Representatives Murdock, Democrat, of Utah; Gwynne, Republican, of Iowa, and Vreeland, Republican, of New Jersey all voted to report the bill favorably to the House. He said the other subcommittee member, Representative Gibbs, Dem- ocrat, of Georgia, could not be pres- ent at the group’s meeting but that he was favorable to the legislation. Will Censor ‘Tobacco Road’ JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 27 (#). —Mayor John A. Conway assured the Ministerial Association that the play “Tobacco Road” would be cen- sored for its presentation here ‘Thursday and Priday so that “no blasphemous utterances will be heard.” Mllen and McCoach Back Tax on All Pay Earned Here Seal Directed to Speed Proposed Amendments To Congress Immediate amendment of the Distriet's income tax so that it would be applied to all persons receiving income in the District, whether they are residents or claim to be citizens of other jurisdictions, was urged to- day by Commissioners George E. Al- len and David McCoach, jr., in adopting a recommendation made by Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal. The Commissioners requested Mr. Seal to prepare the proposed amend- ments as soon as possible so that Congress would have an early op- portunity to act. Informed that the Commissioners had decided to send a new revenue plan to Congress as a substitute for the combination retail sales in- conte tax, the House virtually killed Monday, Chairman Randolph of the District Committee said: “The plan will be given prompt consideration by the Piscal Affaits Subcommittee and then the full committee.” Would Apply to Legislators. Mr. Seal said the draft he was preparing for the Commissioners would contain the same proposals as those he prepared 10 da®s ago for Representative Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts, one of the principal sponsors of the District’s present income tax law. Under such word- ing the tax would be applied to members of Congress, it was said. The fundamental change proposed by Mr. Seal would be to apply the income tax not only to those who are found to be “domiciled” in the District, but rather to non-residents as well as to residents on incomes earned in the District. Along with this, Mr. Seal is proposing that the District would take its tax first, leav- ing to the States the practice of giving credits against their taxes for the bills paid the District. . The Commissioners yesterday issued a formal statement in which they said they would be prepared to submit to Congress at the open- ing of the”session next January any proposed changes in the revenue law they found necessary as a result of careful analysis of the present levies after the District’s returns have been received April 15. They suggested they did not think there would be sufficient time thereafter for them to prepare legislation deal- ing with any possible change in tax rates, if the receipts from the income levy showed that such changés were needed. Mr. Allen today said, however, that the question of revamping the present law so as to cure the de- fects revealed by the recent de- cision by the United States Court of Appeals, in its action on a test of the District’s old intangible per- sonal property tax, was another matter and that he agreed with Mr. Seal that action by Congress at this session was desirable. District officials were advised that this was in accord with a sugges- tion made by Senator King, chair- man of the Senate District Com- mittee. Fordham Seismograph Records Severe Quake By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 27.—The Rev. Joseph J. Lynch said a “quite se- vere” earthquake occurred at 7:31 am. today at a distance of about 4,600 miles from New York. The Fordham University siesmog- rapher said the direction of the quake could not be determined. The shocks were registered here at 7:42.15 and 7:51.12. Norwegian Ship Is Torpedoed At British Contraband Base B3 the Associated Press. BERGEN, Norway, March 27— Shippers here were advised today that the 3,794-ton Norwegian freight- er Cometa, whose home port is Ber- gen, was torpedoed and sunk yes- terday while in the British contra- band control base atgKirkwall, in the Orkney Islands -Northern Scotland. . The entire crew of 37 was saved. The Cometa was en route from Bergen to Buenos Aires. The newspaper Bergen Aftenblad bitterly criticized the British for taking the ship into the contraband base after the British Consul at Bergen was said to Bave given her “official clesrance.” flihe carried s cargo of Norwegian . D.C. Budget Cut: Shake-Up Due In Institutions 1941 Fund, Slashed $1,317,701, Is Still Above This Year's By JAMES E. CHINN. Drastic shake-up in administra- tion of public welfare institutions and relief of some of the most pressing conditions in those that have been recent tgrgets of criti- cism are provided in the 1941 Dis- trict appropriation bill reported to the House today. Appropriations totaling $48,291,717 are recommended to operate the municipal government in the new fiscal year beginning July 1, a slash of $1317,701 under estimates ap- proved by the Budget Bureau. The $48,291,717 figure, however, repre- sents an increase of $222510 over appropriations for the current fiscal year. The $1317,701 cut in budget estimates was applied to near- ly” all municipal departments, most of them on a small scale, and is in keeping with the promise of Chairman Caldwell of the House subcommittee in charge of the bill to fashion a program that would, as near as possible, keep within anticipated available reve- nue. On the basis of appropriations called for in the bill the District would wind up the new fiscal year in the red to the extent of an esti- mated $800,515. $6,000,000 Federal Share. No increase in the Federal pay- ment toward District expenses is provided. The amount is fixed at $6,000,000, the same as appropriated for the present year. Chairman Caldwell said today he believed the committee has pre- pared the best appropriation bill possible on the basis of anticipated revenue in the coming fiscal year. He said the prospective $800,515 deficit at the close of the next fiscal year did not represent a serious situation, since the probably short- age would be merely “a bookkeep= ing one.” The House plans to begin consid- { eration of the bill tomorrow. Obviously aroused by the attacks on welfare institutions, the sub- committee which wrote the bill pro- | vided for a new official—a principal assistant director of public welfare— who will have immediate super- vision over the institutions and who will be held responsible for -their proper administration. In addi- tion, the bill contemplates replace- ment of the heads of two institu- tions where existing conditions have been most vigorously denounced— the Home for the Aged and Infirm | at Blue Plains apd the National Training School for Girls. The subcommitcee pointed out in its report on the bill it believed the fixing of responsibility on one “qual- ified official” wi ill devote his en- tire time to o™ #sing the welfare institutions “will go a long way toward eliminating unsatisfactory conditions which have existed in sev- eral of the institutions for some | time.” $800,515 Deficit Seen. The $1,317,701 the subcommittee removed from the budget estimates |saved the District from a possible revenue deficit of more than $2,000,- 000 at the close of the coming fiscal year. The subcommittee explained that the municipal treasury would face a shortage of $1,085415 at the close of the present fiscal year, June 30, but that an anticipated surplus |in the new fiscal year amounting to | $284,900, due largely to postponement of collection of one half of the local tax on personal incomes until Oc- tober, would lower the deficit at the end of the 1941 fiscal year to the estimated $800,515. “The total general fund revenues for the fiscal year 1941 are estimated to be $42,723,000,” said the report. “This leaves an estimated surplus for the fiscal year 1941 in the general fund of $284.900. However, it is esti- mated that there will be a deficit for the fiscal year 1940 amounting to $1,085.415, which, after deducting the probable surplus for the fiscal year 1941, amounting to $284900, will leave a net deficit at the close of the fiscal vear 1941 of $800,515, unless additional revenue is provided.” School Budget Hardest Hit. The public school budget bore the brunt of theé" House committee’s trimming process. Nearly $500,000 of the total of $1,317,701 lopped off the budget estimates was in school items. The bill, however, does pro- (See D. C. BUDGET, Page A-7.) IBudget n Brief | TIGHTENED SUPERVISION of welfare institutions asked by D. C. appropriations group. Page A-6 NON-RESIDENT PUPILS to be forced to pay D. C. tuition in supply bill as reported. Page A-6 RECREATION CONTROL passes to Board of Education under 1941 appropriation bill Page A-6 COMPARATIVE ' TABLE showing steps to® date in development . of D. C. budget for 1941. Page A-6 FOUR NEW SCHOOL PROJECTS included in budget as reported out by committee. Page A-6 ADDITIONAL POLICE refused by House committee despite in- crease in District crime. Page A-6 FUNDS FOR EDUCATION of handi- capped children provided in Wel- fare Board budget. Page A-6 SCOTT CIRCLE UNDERPASS study is authorized for Highway ment. Page A-6 REALTY ASSESSMENT total's de- crease since eight years ago “amazes” committee. Page A-7 RELIEF TOTAL of $900,000 cut to pay salaries of certifying and case workers. Page A-6 ONE-MAN TAX 'EAL BOARD criticized for of training in property valua Page A-7