Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-04
PLEA FOR S1O5,O()O
FUND FOR STADIUM
TO Be REJECTED
Other School and Improve
ment Requests Not in Bill
to Meet Same Fate.
SUBCOMMITTEE ENDS
HEARING ON MEASURE
Roosevelt High Appropriation Was
Sought by 80 Civic, Trade and
PIT. A. Organizations.

The plea of 80 civic, trade and parent
teacher organizations for an appropria-
ton of $1O5,00O for a stadium and rec
reation field at the new Roosevelt High
School will be turned down, it was dis
closed today as the House subcommittee
on appropriations completed hearings on
the 1888 District appropriate ton bill
The request for inclusion in the bill
of an item for the erection of the
stadium and for the recreation field
was filed with the committee Yesterday
by a large delegation representing the
organizations interested in the new
high school.
All other requests for funds for
school and other public improvements
not now included in the bill also will be
denied. 1t was said as it is the irten-
tlon OF the committee to follow closely
the estimates for 1888 as approved by
the Budget Bureau.
Report Likely Within Week.
The subcommittee expects to report
out the appropriation bill by the lat
ter part of next week. In the mean
time, the members plan to make n tour
OF the city inspecting streets recon-
menoed Tor improvement and proposed
new school sites carried in the bill.
Although no indication was given as
to the probable total amount to be car
ried in the bill, the belief was expressed
that it would not be materially under
the S47,0O0,O00 recommended by the
Budget Bureau.
In accordance with the instructions
OF the House, the committee. it was
declared, will write into the bill a mo-
vision preventing salary increases and
the filling of vacancies in the 1899
fiscal year. A number of new employees
are to be allowed, however The public
schools, 1t was said, will be given funds
for the employment of 40 additional
teachers who, with IS to be drawn
from special assignments, will be suffi-
clent to meet normal enrolment in
crease, it was declared.
Funds for More Guards.
The committee also, it was indicated,
Will grant the Board of Public Welfare
sufficient funds for the employment of
additional guards at the District Re-
formatory at Lorton, Va More guards
VIII be needed there, it was pointed out,
when all District prisoners are sent
there instead OF to the Federal peni-
tentiar1es at Atlanta and Leavenworth.
The committee will be more generous
WIN Vic ott0Ct railway companies imam
was the Budget Bureau, according to
indications. Items carried in the bill
Tor replacing the present Benning and
P street bridges provide that the Wash
lngton Railway & Electric Co. pay one
third OF the total cost. The committee
is expected to require the company to
pay but one fourth of the cost. Repre-
sentatives of the railway company who
appeared before the committee objected
to making any contribution toward the
improvement of these bridges.
Representatives of four northeast
citizens associations will meet tonight
to discuss plans for overcoming con-
greSsional opposition to $250,000 ap-
preparation to complete the Taft Junior
High School at Eighteenth and Quincy
streets northeast
The associations, which have COM
bined into the Northeast Conference of
Citizens Associations already have
adopted resolutions strongly urging sup
port Of the $250,000 item recommended
by the Bureau of the Budget. Mem
bers of the conference are the Brook
land, Michigan Park, Dahlgren Terrace
and Burroughs Citizens Associations.
At the meeting Monday night at the
Marvin M. Mclean, committees were
oohCu W WOhh 1Ol pdSooSc VI IlS dp-
preparation as additional school facil-
tiles were said to be much needed in
that section. An initial appropriation
of 100000 was legiSlated at the last
session of Congress, out of which the
site was purchased and plans drafted
for erection of the building.
The project has advanced to the
point where bids are ready to be called
for, but it was pointed out that before
this can be done funds for building the
school must be available.
The meeting tonight was called as
result of rumors that opposition had
developed in Congress over the pro-
posed appropriation and the recon-
mendation of school authorities that
the contract be let. Tonight's meeting
will be held at the home Of R. N. Ash
nun, conference secretary, at 1924
Newton street northeast.