Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-26
DISTRICT SUPPLY
| BILLS ARE PASSED
ON BY D. c. HEADS
Congress Asked to Retain
TindalI by Special
Consideration.
COMMENT is WITHHELD
ON SALARY INCREASES
Proposals to Prohibit Experiments
on Living Dogs and to Create
Lincoln Museum Hit.

The District Commissioners today
| sent to Congress a large batch of re-
| ports on pending legislation, much of it
having to do with items carried in the
supply bill for the next fiscal year which
require authorizing legislation.
A bill to continue DR.. william Tin
dali in the service Of the District was
strongly Endorsed. Unless this bill is
passed DR.. Tindall will be automatically
retired August 20 next. The report on
this bill reads:
"Dr. Tindan has given the District
OF Columbia, both under the present
form of government and under previous
forms of government, loyal and eff
cient service. He is now Sc years of
age and is active, both mentally and
physically, and if his service with the
District of Columbia is extended, as
authorized by this bill, it is believed
that he will be able to perform for
some time to come the good services
ton of this character is unusual, the
Commissioners feel that the very large
public sentiment in favor of the re-
tention of DR.. Tindall would Justify
special consideration of his case"
DR.. Tindall Is in charge of the bureau
Of information at the District Building.
He was formerly secretary to Gov.
Shepherd and to the temporary and
permanent commissions which governed
the District.
Salary Raise Is Proposed.
The Commissioners declined to ex-
press any opinion on a bill to fix the
salaries of the Office of District Com
missioner at $4,000. The two civilian
Commissioners now receive $4,000 and
the Engineer Commissioner $4,000.
After some service, If the Commission
ers decide that their efficiency ratings
warrant 1t, they may recommend to
themselves that their salaries be raised
to $500 and may then, sitting as a
board, approve their own recommended
tionS and raise their own salaries The
bill was proposed by Senator Arthur
Capper, chairman Of the Senate Dis
trict committee.
Bills to allow the District to sell at
public or private sale piece of real
estate bounded by Newark street,
Forty-fifth street, Macomb street and
New Mexico avenue, and another at
the northwest corner of Benning road
and Twenty-fourth street extended
northeast, were approved. So was a
bill to provide for the operation and
maintenance of bathing pools under the
Jurisdiction of the director of public
buildings and public parks. A bill to
allow the Board of Education to use
the present Business High School
Building as soon as the Roosevelt High
School Building is completed, to relieve
congestion in senior high, Junior high
and elementary schools m the adjacent
territory, was likewise approved.
Street Closings Approved.
The Commissioners approved a bill
providing for the closing of certain
streets and alleys in the Fort Reno
section, necessary to the completion of
grade plans for the new Alice Deal
Junior High School. There was an
appropriation for beginning work on
this school in the supply bill for the
current fiscal year, but 1t will be i'm
possible to start construction until the
grades are established.
A bill to permit the District to dis
pose of combustible refuse from the
Maryland and Virginia territories
adjacent to Washington in the Dis
trict's new incinerators, about to be
built, was approved.
The Commissioners disapproved bill
to prohibit experiments upon living
dogs, saying that this subject Is now
covered by appropriate legislation. A
bill to establish a National Lincoln
Museum in Ford's Theater was disap-
proved. A bill to amend the school
teachers retirement act by granting
annuities to II teachers who resigned
from the service prior to June, 1919,
was also disapproved.
The Bureau of the Budget had re-
ported unfavorably on the last two.