Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1942, Page 27

’ Washington News -1 [)B szh“ggiflg giaf New Rent Act Rules Adopted, Go Info Effect Hundreds of Cases Will Be Speeded By Regulations Clearing the way for decisions by Rent Administrator Robert F. Cogs- well on hundreds of questions of ad- justments of rents above or below levels of January 1, 1941, the Board of Commissioners today adopted & comprehensive set of regulations to implement the District Emergency Rent Act. The rules are effective at once. B One of the most vital, in the opin- lon of Mr. Cogswell, is that provid- ing for “satisfaction” of a case whgre the landlord and tenant agree to an adjustment. It calls for the tenant to sign a notarized statement that he was under no coercion or misapprehension of his rights. In addition there is a saving clause permitting the rent administrator to reopen the case if and when he finds any need to do so. Literally hundreds of cases, where- in it was declared rent adjustments were warranted because the owner had provided improved or enlarged facilities, have been awaiting deci- slon. This was delayed until the rent regulations could be drafted and promulgated and until the necessary legal forms could be print- ed. Some of these forms were sent today to the printer. New Apartments Affected. In somewhat the same situation have been the cases involving legal rent to be charged for apartments in buildings erected or completed since the beginning of last year. Heretofore the rent administrator and his staff merely have been ad- vising owners and tenants of their rights under the law, pending adop- tion of the rules. Mr. Cogswell announced that be- ginning Monday his staff no longer would operate the “question and answer clinic” for parties calling at the rent-control offices at 1740 Mas- sachusetts avenue N.W. With the adoption of the regulations, he said, an orderly system would be in- voked. Callers will be sent first to Charles Stofberg, public relations officer, and he will route them to other staff workers, except in cases where the complainant is to be directed to fill out the normal complaint form. Mr. Cogswell cited a typical case which new ean be handled under section 16 of the regulations. It deals with an apartment once rented un- furnished for $90 ‘s month, but which during~#he -Past yedt* was equipped with $3,000 worth of furni- ture and other fittings, after which the owner asked and the tenant was willing to pay.$165 a month. How- ever, because of the stiff penalties for violation of the Rent Act, the tenant refused to pay the high rent until the agreement was sanctioned by the Cogswell office. The rent ad- ministrator said there were hun- dreds of cases of this kind on which action now will be taken promptly. No Costs for Filing. Another section of the rules pro- vides there will be no costs for the filing of petitions for adjustment. Mr. Cogswell explained, however, that there is a charge to cover the | cost of registered letters which must be sent to the respondent to each complaint. | Another section provides that no- | tice given respondents shall be made returnable not less than 10 days from the date of issue, but that the | notice shall be served at least five | days before the return day. If the respondent fails to appear ‘ for a hearing scheduled by the rent | administrator or to file a written statement in answer to a petition, the case nevertheless will proceed, under the rent regulations, and the examiner after hearing parties present shall make findings of fact and recommend an appropriate or- der, for the approval of the rent ad- ministrator. If both parties to a case fail to appear, the examiner may return the case to the files or order the case dismissed, or make such other disposition of it “as jus- tice may require.” May Demand Data. The examiner is given authority to administer oaths and affirmations and may require by supoena or otherwise thé attendance and testi- mony of witnesses, and the produc- tion of documents, inspection of housing accommodations and other- ‘wise may obtain necessary facts. Another section provides that petitioners for adjustment and respondents may appear in person at hearings, but that no one except | a member of the %ar of the District Court shall be permitted to appear | at hearings “in a representative capacity” except to obtain a con- tinuance. Mr. Cogswell said this meant rent agents could not act as attorneys in the conduct of a hearing unless they were members of the | District bar. The staff of examiners was com- pleted today when the oath of office was administered to Ernest Francis ‘Williams, 46, of 4451 Albemarle street N.W., for many years a prac- ticing attorney here who in recent years has been'associated with the District Lawyers and Washington Title Co. Voorhis Will Discuss Post-War Planning Representative Voorhis, Democrat, | of California will speak on post-war planning at the opening session of | the Catholic Conference on Indus- | trial Problems Monday at Carroll Hall, 924 G street N.W. Sharing the program will be the Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S. J., professor of sociology and politics at Catholic University, whose subject will be “The Encyclical’s Appraisal of the Economic Order.” ‘Wages and prices will occupy the attention of: the conference in the afternoon. Responsibilities of labor SCATTERING TO PLACES OF SAFETY-—Stu- dents at Leland Junior High, Chevy Chase, Md., are shown during an air-raid drill yesterday. WASHINGTON, D. C, girls during the have been all Rats Greater Menace ToD. C. Than Bombs, Dewey Asserls House Committee Hears Ruhland on Efforts To Control Rodents ‘Washington faces more danger from disease-carrying rats than from enemy bombs, Representative Dewey, Republican, of Illinois to- day warned a House committee as it started an investigation of rodent control in the District. He suggested that rat eradication be made a part of the civilian de- funds be used to finance a wide- spread campaign to rid the District of rats. Representative Dewey made. the suggestion after Health Officer George: C. Ruhland testified Tats carrying typhusebearing “fiéas had been found in Washington. * “Failure to & campaign against rats in ‘Washington might be more dangerous than any pos- sibility of bombing,” declared Mr. Dewey. “If an epidemic starts in this overcrowded city we would have a complete breakdown of our war effort.” Ruhland Tells of Program. Dr. Ruhland outlined efforts of the Health Department to rid ‘Washington of rats, but declared it had been handicapped by the lack of funds. “Undoubtedly there are plenty of rats here—I can't estimate the num- ber,” he said. “We should engage in a rodent-control program, but we are desperately understaffed and | can’t put on a program.” Dr. Ruhland told of a cordon the Hea]th Department placed in the Union Station area to trap rats, and said that 5,000 had been cap- tured in this campaign, 150 of which were examined and 85 found to be carrying the type of fleas that cause typhus. The health officer said altogether five cases of typhus fever had been discovered in the Metropolitan Area of Washington, but only two could be connected with the rat scourge in the Union Station area. The other three, he explained, were reported from Laurel and Hyattsville, Md., and Falls Church, Va. Garbage “Breakdown” Denied. Representative Dewey, whose com- plaint about a “rat scourge” near the Capitol was responsible for the in- vestigation, said he knew there were a “great deal” of rats in this area which might be due to a “break down” in the garbage collection service. ever, he empl , was not re- sponsible for this situation because it is still operating on the same ap- propriations it received before Wash- ington’s population increased. In fact, he declared, the Refuse Depart- inadequate equipment.” Wwilllam A. Xanten, superintend- ent of city refuse, denied the garb- age collection service had “broken down ” but admitted his department is facing a shortage of equipment. He also stressed the importance of.| rat control as a regu'ar municipal activity, but said it was untrue that garbage is chiefly responsible for rats. Furthermore, he said, the refuse department is receiving “reasonable” co-operation from the public with respect to the receptacles in which g;rbage is placed awaiting collec- n. There are no “rookie” dollars. Send yours to the front. Buy United States Defense savings bonds and stamps. Conservation of Paper Every citizen is called ubon to see that not a pound of paper is wasted. Demand from every clerk that any unnecessary wrapping of packages or un- necessary use of paper bags be dispensed with. Do not burn newspapers but, when you have saved enough for a bundle, give them to the school children who are co- operating in the defense pro- gram with the parent-teacher organization in The Star’s cam- and ifdustry to the present emer- gency will be discussed in the eve- Bing. ' paign for reclaiming old news- papers. fense program, and that Féderal | vigil triag | officials had refect The city Refuse Department, how- | ment “is doing a splendid job with [funds but disallowed. It will permit School Board Votes Disapproval of Night Waiches for Women Vigil of 24 Hours Now Maintained in 18 Selected Buildings Unanimous disapproval of use of woman teachers to watch school buildings after 8:30 p.m. was voted yesterday by the Board of Educe- tion. Action followed reports of an alleged attempted assault on a teacher on watch in a colored school. At the present time 24-hour is being maintained in 18 se- lected school buildings on orders from District civilian defense offi- clals. 4« At th¢-same time Supt. Frank W. Ballou . told the members defense his to abandon the watch in:all; and ‘m the situstion, or fo turn the after-school watch over to air-raid wardens. They accepted instead, he said, the pian to man strategically-located buildings. Plans for manning some of the schools with . auxiliary police or wardens went afoul, Dr. Ballou in- dicated, when numbers of both groups indicated they hadn't signed up to serve in schools. Principals Advised. School principals have already been advised not to use woman | teachers after 8:30 pm., Dy. Ballou sald, but under questions from board members, he added that he could not promise that some were not be- |ing used where man teachers | weren’t available. | Referring to the alleged attempted assault, C. Melvin Sharpe observed, “one little incident like that and | we’ll all be sorry.” His query as to whether there was not some way in which the vigil could be stopped, brought from Dr. Ballou the opinion that maintenance of the vigil should not be placed on the teachers as a professional group. Rather he said it was the responsibility of the com- munity in which the school was located. In some instances, it was stated, communities have already put up money to hire watchmen to relieve the teachers of the work. Answering a criticism of the Girl Reserve Mothers’ Council, the mem- bers declared activities and social functions in connection with mid- winter graduations shuld not be can- | celled merely because the board had decided earlier to move as many graduations as possible into daylight hours to avoid night gatherings. Board Member Charles D. Drayton said he thought the transfer of the | exercises to daytime was premature. ‘The members voted to seek a $45,- 000 deficiency appropriation to com- plete six classrooms at the Lafayette ‘School and $3,500 for seven addi- tional clerks from March 1 to June 30, the end of the fiscal year. The completion of the classrooms at La- fayette was sought in Lanham Act abandonment of the old E. V. Brown School, at least by next September, it was stated. Personnel Changes Approved. A number of personnel changes were approved by the board as was abandonment for school purposes of the Weightman, Hubbard and Blake Schools. Mrs. F. L. Toms, principal of the Randall Night School, is resigning as of February 3 when she will be suc- ceeded by Miss C. E. Lewis. With the closing of Hubbard, the teacher training program carried on there and at the Powell School will be transferred to the Truesdell School as will Mrs. Ruth K. Webb, former administrative principal at Hubbard-Powell. Powell will be combined with the Raymond School under Miss Lou E. Ballenger. Mrs. I. I. Ruediger was made permanent supervising principal of the seventh division. Miss Nell F. Hiscox, principal of Truesdell, will move to the prin- cipalship of the Janney School made vacant by the death of Mrs. Eliza- beth K. Peeples. the Addison-Curtis-Hyde combina- cipal at Corcoran, D d Corcoran be combined with Grant under Miss’| Viola Offutt. P.-T. A. Plans Party The . Parent-Teacher Association of the Annandale (Va.) High School will hold a party tomorrow night in the ‘school. A neighborhood house which affords shelter to the boys and riod of an air-raid alarm. One hundred houses for the purpose. ¢ School Emptied * in 5 Minutes | In Air-Raid Alarm Test Leland Junior High Students ‘Melt’ Into Nearby Homes By CARTER BROOKE JONES. It might have been the end of the school day. The children were streaming out of Leland Junior High School in Chevy Chase, Md. Yet there was something peculiar about the way they left. This was the strange part of it. ing, chattering groups that leave school afternoon. every s But this, it develgped, was an air- rald drill. And what to do in such an event has been worked out with precision at Leland. Silence is part of the training, for the school au- thorities figure that talk might lead to confusion or even panic if the students were following the evacua- tion plan in an actual attack. ‘The frst complete rafd rek was held yesterday and the plans were carried out in every detall. Uses “Home” System. Unlike the District schools, which follow the plan of the National Office of Civillan Defense for students to stay in their school bulldings in an air raid, Leland has devised a sys- tem of evacuating the children to nearby houses, all within easy walk- ing distance of the school. If, however, a rald should occur without sufficient warning to permit the students to go to the designated houses, an inner alarm system would summon them to the first-floor cor- ridor, considered the safest place in the building. This would happen in the event the “red” signal from Metropolitan Area communications headquarters arrived before the an- ticipated interval of 20 to 30 minutes after the first alert. ‘The school fire alarm bells sum- moned the 1,000 students from their classes, and they filed out of the building. The entire structure was emptied in approximately five min- utes, except for the skeleton force of teachers and other employes kept to combat theoretical incendiary bombs or to meet other potential emergencies. It was the first test of the system which Mrs. Helen P. Bready, school Offering Refuge principal, and her staff have set up in co-operation with the zone air- raid wardens. One hundred residences nearest the schools had been set aside for the pupils. All these householders had agreed gladly to take in stu- dents. Ten children had been assigned to each house, and these groups knew exactly where they were to go. More- over, every dwelling was the home of some pupil. The boy or girl living there simply was taking in nine schoolmates as temporary guests. There's a teacher for every three shelter homes. ‘There wasn't the slightest confu- sion and Mrs. Bready does not be- lieve there would be in an enemy attack. ‘The adjacent streets was emptied of children in a surprisingly short time. They'd simply melted into various homes. The front doors were opened as they walked into the yards. Where they would go in these houses during a raid would be up to each housewife. Presumably she would pick what seemed the least dangerous location. But no set raid shelters have been devised. Many Live Far Away. 1t would be impracticable for the Leland students all to go to their own homes. Many of them live a long distance from the school. Six buses bring them in from Kensing- ton, Glen Echo and other more or less remote points. Mrs. Bready has in her office a chart diagramming the allotted ref- uge houses. The area is bounded by Wisconsin and Connecticut avenues, Bradley lane and the railroad. It is not necessary for the children to cross any arterial highways to reach their shelters. Every home is within 15 minutes’ walk of the school. A disc marking the departure of each class is placed beside the chart and turned around when every member has returned to school. The school also is installing an |ice, automatic sprinkler system, which should be valuable in case of in- cendiary bombs. Living Expenses Increase 1 Pct. Heére in Month Living costs in the District in- creased 1 per cent between Novem- ber 15 and December 15, Secretary Perkins reported yesterday. Clothing and food advanced 2 per cent and 1.8 per cent, respectively. House fur- nishings and miscellaneous items also cost more. The cost of elec- tricity and fuel declined slightly. During the three months ending December 15, District living costs advanced 2.8 per cent, according to figures of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Individual items showed the following percentage increases Food, 2.6; clothing, 5.9; rent, 0.4; fuel and electricity, 0.5; house furnish ings, 56, and miscellaneous items, 33. The advance during the pre- ceding three-month period brought the District cost of living index on December 15 to 109.7 of the 1935- 1939 average. Rents were raised during the three-month period in 5 per cent of the District homes occupied by white tenants renting for less than $50, the bureau reported. For homes rent- ing for less than $30, the average in- crease was $458, and for those in the $30-$50 level,.the increase was $384. Rent raises were reported for 3 per cent of the homes renting for more than $50 a month, with an average advance of $5.40. Living costs in large cities in- creased 0.3 per cent in December, the smallest rise in any month since last March, Secretary Perkins an- nounced. . Will Hold Benefit Party ~ A party will be held at 8 p.m. to- morrow at St. Michael's School auditorium, Silver Spring, Md, for the benefit of the Academy of the Holy Names. Goober Victory Drive Opens, War's Nuttiest Development The nuttiest development in the Mrs. Prances S. Haas, principal of | Srov THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942. | to start wérk between 7 a.m. and 8 L] Thig, illustrates how the authorities at Leland keep check on the children who are sent out on air-raid drills. Don Sullivan (right) is shown turning the file check over to read “In” as the classes return to school.—Star Staff Photos. Sc;ciety and General B Hankin Seeks Funds | For Study of . C. Transporfafion Considers Assessment On Companies to Raise $20,000 An early decision was anticipated today by Chairman Gregory Hankin of the Public Utilities Commission on means of financing a current survey of Washington’s mass trans- portation conditions which he has planned as a guide to changes in use of facilities which may be or- dered. His request denied for a grant of $20,000 for this purpose from the District highway fund, Mr. Hankin | said the commission was consider- ing an assessment against trans- portation companies to cover the cost of the proposed comprehensive investigation. He said a decision on this point may be reached today. Meanwhile, as a means of col- lecting “origin and destination” data as to the riding habits of 200,000 or more Federal and District Government workers, which he said | he would need in the survey, no | matter how financed, Chairman | Hankin today called on department personnel chiefs to co-operate in having employes answer question- Time Data Sought. His plan is for these thousands of | Government workers to fill out and return cards showing when they | leave for work, from what points, what form of transportation they | use and similar data as to their trips | back home. He hopes to find some | agency with punch-card machines which can be used in assembling | the data thus obtained. Possibility that some residents of | outlying areas might use steam | railroad service instead of buses or streetcars to get to the business sec- tion was mentioned by Mr. Hankin | 85 one of the changes that might result from the survey. Such plans, together with the idea of developing a belt line 3 considered in recent ::?m b{ sllt’!:l“y Department of- ul out favor: | pmr able action | In announcing his plans, | Hankin was somewhat b‘:tber'nblo‘;i“ refusal by the Commissioners to | approve a suggestion that $20,000 for the survey be taken from the District highway fund. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, highway director, has contended his division will need more money than will be available from the gasoline tax and other ?:fihfwne}; fu‘nd sources for the traffic- lef street and b: "hxe Sl ridge programs of n 1939 Highway Director White- hurst made a traffic origin and d:- tination survey. When the Com- missioners rejected Mr. Hankin's Tequest for $20,000 from the high- way fund for a utilities commission survey, the Commissioners were told his proposed survey would disclose & change of not more than 1% per cent from 1939. Mr. Hankin scouted this suggestion, pointing to the in- flux of war workers and insisted there was need for a current survey. Some officials, during this debate over financing the commission’s proposed study, have suggested that agency has full authority in law to levy assessments against utilities for investigations and surveys of the needs of their services. Mr. Hankin said this question is-under study and that an answer may be ex- Ppected soon, possibly today. Show Peaks. Question of further staggering of ‘hours of work for both Government and private business workers was raised by Mr. Hankin when he cailed attention to latest reports received from Trafic Director William A. Van Duzer showing when these em- ployes report and leave their jobs. These figures show heavy concen- trations at some morning and eve- ning rush periods. The number of persons reported am., he said, varied from none to 8,800; whereas between 8 a.m. and 9 am. the numbers ranged from 82,000 to 52,000, for various 15- minute periods. There is a heavy decline in numbers reporting at 9:15 and 9:30 am. As to quitting time, the most startling increase is from 4:45 pm. Duty Call fo Augment Police Force With Auxiliaries Weighed . Young Also May Ask Hiring of 400 Others For Regular Department Seeing the need for a great in-| crease in the Washington police force to meet wartime problems, | Commissioner Young contemplates drawing on civilian defense auxil- | jary police for some of the extra men and asking employment of perhaps 400 more officers through regular channels. Maj. Edward J. Kelly, superin- tendent of police, today indorsed & suggestion by Commissioner Young that’a number of the best auxiliary | policemen soon be assigned as “special” police—without compensa- tion—to augment numbers of met- | tion and guard duties. If this works well the plan is to and to use such men as a nucleus from which to develop qualified men who could be given official status as members of the metropolitan police on a regular pay status. Future Clouded. “We don't knows and can't know what conditions we may confront due to the war,” said Mr. Young. “We may come to a point when we will have to have, say, 500 more po- lice in regular duty than we have | now. We must anticipate such a development.” This brought to attention that the Commissioners are scheduled to hold hearings tomorrow morning on Dis- trict deficiency appropriation re- quests that go well beyond $1,000,000. Included in these lists of requests are $300,000 to $400,000 for the re- mainder of this fiscal year by the Health Department, or $712,000 for | the‘whole of the next fiscal year; about $400,000 or more requested by the Sewer Department to make ex- | tensions of its mains to meet needs of new housing for Washington's growing' population; an undeter- mined sum to provide 600 more hos- | pital beds at Gallinger Municipal Hospital and at the District Tu- berculosis Sanatoria at Glenn Dale, Md., and funds for employment of 100 additional regular police. 1,616 Authorized Force. The authorized strength of the metropolitan police now is 1616. This includes the 100 additional men for which Congress made provision at the last session. Already the Commissioners have sent to the new Congress requests for 100 additional men in the reg- ular 1943 Budget estimates. Last Monday they forwarded a request that these men be included in the next deficiency bill so that they could be placed in service several months ahead of next July. In addition to these groups, Mr. | ‘Young said, the Commissioners may find it desirable later in the year, when the 1943 District budget comes | up for action in the House District | Appropriations Subcommittee, to seek the employment of 200 police- | men in addition to all others. This| would raise the authorized strength of the department from the present 1616 to 2016. Retirement Bill Action Completed by Congress Congressional action on legislation increasing retirement benefit con- tributions by Federal employes and ‘blanketing membexs of Congress into the program was completed in the House yesterday. The House concurred in Senate amendments to the Ramspeck civil service retirement bill. The legisla- tion will increase employe contribu- tions from 31 per cent to 5 per cent and will raise to 70 years the present varying ages at which retirement is compulsory, for all except Con- ss members. ployes may retire before reach- ing the compulsory age. Senators and House members will start making retirement fund ments soon, with benefits to be on their entire service in Congress. Representative Whittington, Dem- to 5 pm., when the numbers jump from 11,000 to 74,500, Mr, Hankin said these sets of Government ocrat, of Mississippi and Rankin, announced Democrat, of Mississippi, their objection to the inclusion of vased Congress fo Get Housing Bill In Few Days Southwest Project May Be Included in Lanham Measure Legislation to provide housing for overcrowded Washington, which may include provision for the Southwest reconstruction project, will be pre- sented to Congress within a few days, it was revealed yesterday. Representative Lanham, Demo- crat, of Texas said he will introduce in the House a bill which is now be- ing prepared. A national bill call- ing for expenditure of $300,000,000 to house workers at war industrial plants, which Mr. Lanham spon- sored, passed Congress last week. The District was eliminated from | sharing” in the fund. This new bill is expected to supply some housing for low-income groups but will leave unanswered a major portion of the Capital's housing problem. Defense Housing Co- ordinator Charles F. Palmer, in presenting his 22,000-unit program just before the country entered the war, sald private builders were ex- pected to providée about half the dwelling units needed. U. 8. Help Declared Needed. Private industry has been stalled in its effort to build 15,000 units, by “red tape and failure of defense officials” to recognize the problems it faces in building under priority regulations and accompanying un- certainties as to availability of ma- terials. Builders say they must re- ceive co-operation and help from the Government if their program is to go forward. Mr. Lanham said he was not familiar with all details of the Good- willie plan for rehabilitating South- west Washington as a “war housing measure.” Though aware of the great need for housing here, he said he had called in the Federal Works Agency and Mr. Palmer to assist in preparation of the new bill. James Craemer, co-ordinator for the Capital area under Mr. Palmer, said the Goodwillie plan is being given careful study for possible in- clusion in a new housing program for Washington which the office is preparing. Such a program is es- sential in view of current estimates that a quarter-million additional people will be brought here this year. Plan Looked On With Favor. Mr. Craemer added that the Good= willie plan is “looked upon with favor™. by his office. The study, he | ropotan police doing traffic direc- |Said, is tp determine whether some problems presented by the plan, such | as displacement of residents now in | draw more auxiliary police into duty | the 85-block section, can be worked out satisfactorily. Arthur Good- willie, H. O..L. C. conservation di~ rector, prepared in great detail the plan for conversion of rundown | Southwest areas to a modern resi- | dential section for war workers. It invelves expenditures of about $32,- | 000,000 to remodel sound structures on the perimeter of the blocks and erect new apartments on the in- teriors where many alley dwellings now stand. Mr. Lanham said he would call & brief hearing after the housing bill is introduced. District Commission= ers, members of the House District Committee and public officials will be asked to appear. FuneraT Services Held For Baroness de Sounin Baroness Leonie de Sounin, who died Sunday at her home in the Westchester Apartments, was buried privately after funeral services Tuesday at the S. H. Hines funeral home. She had made her home in Washington since 1930. Daughter of Count Philip Sereny, she received her early education on the family estate in Bohemia. She married Baron de Sounin, young physician of Baltic nobility, whom she met in St. Petersburg while taking part in a performance for charity. Following his early death, | she studied and traveled. | In Germany at the outbreak of | the first World War, she was held | for a time as an enemy alien. She | then spent time in neutral coun- | tries and went to New York City in 1916. | Out of her interest and experience | in the use of herbs in cooking, she helped in introducing them to ex- tension workers of the Agriculture Department and her latest book, | published in December of last year, | was entitled “Magic in Herbs.” D. C. Transpjr;atlon Study To Be Resumed Tomorrow The House District Committee will resume its study of Washing- ton’s wartime public transportation problem tomorrow at 10 am. Wit- nesses called include E. D. Merrill, president of the Capital Transit Co.; Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, and Traffic Director Wil- liam A. Van Duzer. Nucleus for the study is a reso- lution sponsored by Chairman Ran- dolph to exempt District taxicabs from the Government's tire ration- ing order. Price Administrator Leon Henderson vigorously opposed the plan at the committee’s initial hear- ing last Priday. Mr. Randolph wants taxicabs here allowed tires because of the part they play in the mass transportae tion service. Mr. Henderson, how- ever, described taxi service as a “luxury” ride—something which, he said, Washington must give up dur- ing the war to conserve the Nation's vital rubber “stock pile.” Dog Show May Be Canceled BY the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 22—War conditions may cause cancellation of the Virginia Kennel Clab's annual “elective officials,” but did not have dog show, scheduled for April 24 here, club officials said yesterday. A committee will report at & club meeting February 2. >