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effort to establish who has been buying
the poison.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen prom
ised to help in any manner possible,
Mr.. Rakemann said. Mr.. Hazen is a
great lover of both horses and dogs
During a period of four or five
months the dog poisoning list has passed
well over the dozen mark, Mr.. Rake
mann said, most of the poisonings oc-
curing In the section bounced by Bel
mont road. Nineteenth street, Allen
place and Ashmead place. The matter
was taken before the Kalorama Citi-
zens' Association at its last meeting.
Albert Payson Terhune, owner of the
Sunnybank Kennels and well known
dog lover, upon hearing of the poison
ings wrote Mr.. Rakemann a letter of
sympathy, expressing his hope the
crime" would seen be stopped.
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DISTRICT WILL ASK
SEPARATE BUDGET.
Hazen FavorS Divorcement
of Local Estimates From
Federal Grouping.

Congress will be asked at the ap-
preaching session to consider proposals
for the complete enforcement of the
estimates for operation of the District
government from the national budget
as prepared by the Bureau of the Bud
get, it was indicated today at the Dis
trict Building.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen an
nounced today he favored a change
which would permit the District budget
to be submitted as a separate matter
directly to Congress by the heads of
the District government.
He indicated he would make such a
proposal to Congress when an opportu-
nifty arises during congressional consid-
Grafton Of the 1885 budget.
A similar suggestion is expected to be
placed officially before the Senate as a
result Of a study being made Of the
costs and methods of operation of the
Senator William H. King, chairman of
the Senate District Committee, by two
District and one Federal officials. These
are Mai Daniel D. Donovan, District
auditor; William A. Roberts, assistant
corporation counsel, and F. J. Bailey of
the Bureau Of the Budget.
Sentiment already has developed on
Capitol Hill for elimination of the Dis
trict budget from the national budget
as prepared by the Bureau of the
Budget. Favorable comment on the
suggestion has been made by Repre-
sentative Mary T. Norton Of New
Jersey, chairman of the House District
Committee.
The change was urged by experts Of
the Brookings Institution in a compre-
hensive study Of the operation of the
District government, published In 1929
Auditor Donovan last June submitted
TO Chairman Norton q lengthy brief on
the subject. noting the suggestions
specialists and citing other arguments
against the present system.
Commissioner Hazen pointed out to-
day that there is little reason in forcing
District estimates to pass through the
hands of the national budget officials,
since the only direct interest the Fed
eral Government has is In the Federal
contribution to the expenses of the Ma
tional Capital. This, it was pointed
out, Is but an exceedingly small sum in
comparison with the whole national
budget
If the District estimates were to be
sent directly to Congress by the District,
he added, committees of both houses
still would have complete control over
the matter as at present
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NEWPREC|NCT PLAN
LAID BEFORE HAzEN
BY CHIEF OF POLICE
Brown Gives Commissioner
Recommendations for Max
ing Boundaries.
MATTER WILL BE TAKEN
UP BY BOARD TOMORROW
Old No. 4 Station to Be Re.es.
tablished Under Present
Plan.

Recommendations for the boundaries
of the new police precinct to be es-
tablished about January |, with the re.
establishment of the old No. station,
were laid today before Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen by Maj. Ernest W.
Brown, superintendent Of police.
The matter will be acted upon at the
meeting of the Board Of Commissioners
tomorrow.
To Begin in Ellipse Center.
Maj. Brown has recommended that
the boundaries Of the fourth precinct be
as follows:
Beginning at the center of an i'm
aginary line through the middle of the
Elhpse and a line drawn through the
middle of the Mall; thence east along
an imaginary line through the center
Of the Mall and the United States
Capitol grounds to the center of the
United States Capitol: thence south
along an imaginary line through the
Capitol and the Capitol grounds to
South Capitol street; thence south
along the center of South Capitol street
to its intersection with the AnacoSia
River; thence in southweSterly direc-
tion along the north bank of the River
to the southwest point of the War Col
lege grounds; thence on an imaginary
line across the Washington Channel to
Hains Point; thence along the east
wall on the southerly side of Potomac
Park to its intersection with the High
way Bridge; thence in southerly
direction along the east side of High
way Bridge to high water mark on
the Virginia shore, thence in a north
erly direction along the west side of
inlet to Tidal Basin; thence in a north
erly direction. along the east shore Of
Tidal Basin to its intersection with an
imaginary line drawn through the CEN
ter Of the Ellipse: thence north along
said imaginary line to the point of
beginning.
No. 10 Become No. IL.
The present No. precinct would
become No. IL under the change. The
boundaries of new No. 5 precinct
would be as follows:
Beginning at the center Of the Capt.
tol: east through the Capitol grounds
to East Capitol street; thence east along
the middle Of East Capitol street to its
intersection with Anacostia River;
thence in a southwesterly direction
along the north bank of the river to
the intersection of South Capitol street;
thence north along the center of South
Capitol street and the Capitol grounds
to the point of beginning.
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POLICE CHECKING POISON SALES
AS NEW DOG DEATH is REPORTED

Reports to the police today indicated
that the dog poisoner of the Northwest
section had been busy again over the
week end.
A black and tan rat terrier, owned
by Charles E. Shreve, 2009 Belmont
road, was poisoned Friday. This was
the first case reported since the poison
ing of Mac, the 12-year-old pet of Her
man C. Rakemann, December 6.
Mr.. Rakemann has been active in an
effort to stop the poisonings and offered
500 reward for the capture of the per-
son responsible Tor them.
Supt. Of Police Brown said today an
order had been issued to all precincts
for a lookout" and that the Police De-
partment was doing everything pos
sible." A check-up of poison sales by
local drug stores also was being made,
he said. by the Narcotics Bureau in an
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LANHAM TO FIRE BLANK SHELLS
IN NEW CAMPAIGN ON STARLINGS

Shhhh!-don't tip off the starlings,
but the shotguns which the Districts S
Startling Nuisance Committee are going
to fire into their roosts tonight will be
loaded with blanks.
Clifford Lanham, superintendent of
trees and parkings, and chairman of
the, committee, is going to spend some
of his own powder in the latest offensive
against the pests.
The shooting tonight won't amount
to much, Mr.. Lanham said-just few
preliminary rounds of an experimental
nature. For one thing. the committee
is without funds to press the battle, and
for another, the war must go on late at
night. after the starlings have settled
into deep slumber, and too much shoot
ing might arouse angry echoes.
Mr.. Lanham Is proceeding with call-
ton. He and a few friends of sporting
tnclinstions are going out with their
oIrIl Guns ard C. fcU sile,..s, shorty after
Evening star., 1933-12-18
TWO DIE IN NEARBY
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Woman SuCcumbs at Emer.
gency After Crash in Mary
Iand-Fiye Hurt.

Two persons are dead and five others
are suffering from injuries today as
the result of a series of traffic accidents
on nearby Maryland and Virginia high
ways yesterday. One of those injured
is reported to be in a critical condition
at the Montgomery County General
Hospital.
The dead are:
Mrs. Minnie Skinner Brown, SO year,
old, OF 1918 Donaldson place.
An unidentified colored man known
to his associates as Red"
The injured:
Robert D. Wilson, "a, of 43l Morrison
street, former star athlete at Western
High School and the University OF
Maryland
His father, Robert A. Wilson, also
of the Morrison street address.
Miss Laura Noonan, 26. Of 4461 Con-
duit road.
Elmer Baxter of s4o1 Jones Mill road
Chevy Chase, Md.
Keatley Buckler of Mechanicsville
Md.
Woman's Skull Fractured.
Mrs. Brown died at Emergency Hos.
pital early today from a fractured skull
and other injuries suffered when an
automobile in which she was riding with
Baxter overturned after q rear-end col.
lision with another car at Bradley lane
and Wisconsin avenue, Bethesda. Md.
shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
Mrs. Brown was thrown from the ma.
chine by the force Of the crash and
was then pinned beneath Il when II
overturned upon her. Motgomery Coun-
ty police were told. Baxter escaped with
minor cuts and bruises.
Miss Noonan, who was an occupant
Of the second machine, driven, police
say. by Ellsworth D. Muller Of $50.
Baker street, Brentwood, Md, received
fractured leg and multiple cuts AMI
was taken to Georgetown UniverSit;
Hospital. Muller was unhurt.
On Way to District
Montgomery police said that Baxter
told them Mrs. Brown hailed him a
the District line and asked to be taker
home. They decided, however, to driv.
to Bethesda lunch room for bit,
to eat" before proceeding to her resi-
dence.
Wilson and his father were injured
the former critically, when an auto
mobile driven by the former Westen
High School and Maryland foot ball
base ball and basket ball star skidde(
on the Seventh street pike at Glen
mont. Md, and crashed into a tele
graph pole.
Young Wilson, route agent for tn
Washington Herald received a skull
fracture and is fighting for his life a
the Montgomery County General Hos
pital. Sandy Spring. Md. His father
assistant foreman of the Herald, es
capped with minor cuts.
Buckler suffered head injuries when
car he was driving ran of the road AM
hit telephone pole near Clinton, Md
He was taken to Providence Hospita
for treatment.
The unidentified colored man wa
fatally injured when struck on tn
Washington-A pike at Fou
Mile Run early yesterday by bus sait
by police to have been operated b.
Melvin Heseck. He died at Emergeno.
| Hospital last night.
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@OLICE have broadcast a lookout
l. for two young women believed to
have abandoned a S.week.old

@OLICE have broadcast a lookout
- for two young women believed to
have abandoned a 9.week-old
L baby girl found about 4:3o
o'clock this morning on the front
porch of a residence in the TOO block
Of B street southeast,
Pvt. H. H. Miller OF No. precinct
heard the tiny waits cries while patrol
ling his beat. The infant was warmly
wrapped in four blankets and appeared
none the worse for the experience.
Miller took the baby to the precinct
and from there it was sent to Gallinger
Hospital Nurses said the waif was in
fair health, although undernourished.
The baby was dressed in a suit of cheap
underwear. There were no marks Of
Identification on clothing or blankets.
Police learned later from Joe Hagen,
a taxicab driver, of 806 street north
east, that he drove two young women
fares. one of whom was carrying baby
wrapped In blankets, to Eighteenth
street and Potomac avenue southeast
early today
Hagen said the women hired his cab
at Fourteenth and F streets. He did
not see them after they left his cab at
their destination. One of the women
was described as between 20 and IS
years old, brunette Of slender build,
wearing dark clothing. The other,
blonde, was wearing light coat and no
hat
Descriptions of the women were sent
to all precincts.
Evening star., 1933-12-18
SIX NEW AERIAL MAP
PROJECTS ANNOUNCED

Contracts for six additional aerial
map projects were announced today
by Interior Secretary Ickes for the Soil
Erosion Service.
The maps will be made on projects
of the Soil Erosion Service in South
Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Missouri
Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma. The first
two will be done by the Aerial Ex-
plorations, Inc. of New York and the
last four by j. E. King of Denver.
The Secretary recently announced
that the largest aerial Photographic
map ever undertaken will be made by
Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc. covering
the largest of the soil erosion project,
on the Navajo and Zuni Indian Res.
eryations.
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midnight. They probably will stick to
F street, although there have been COM
plants recently of new starting roosts
at the Public Library and in the vicinity
of Twenty-fourth street and Pernsyl-
vania avenue.
Mr.. Lanham is banking on the an
cient animosity Of feathered creatures
for men with shotguns. The mere threat
Of a man with a gun has been sufficient
in the past to send country birds, like
crows and jays, winging for the next
county.
But starlings, particularly District Of
Columbia starlings. are city birds, as
much at home amid buildings and traf-
f1c as If they had been born and bred
here.
Mr.. Lanham got the shotgun idea
from Wilmington, Del, and Lafayette,
Ind, although kthe startling -chasers in
these two cities Sre understood to have
burnt their powder behind bird shot.
Evening star., 1933-12-18

TINE struggle, grab, hit and run
l. robbery at "a Rhode Island
avenue this morning is ain the
i bag" as the police say when
they have more clues than
culprits.
The robber obliged by putting himself
in the bag, a large, brown paper sack,
which concealed his physiognomy only
temporarily, since it laid him open to
flank attack, despite his large-caliber
pistol.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Hammack were
enjoying a cup Of coffee shortly before
o'clock when the robber strolled in
through the front door of their bakery
shop and made his way to their table in
a rear room.
The newcomer eyed the Hammacks
through small Sits cut in the bag,
training his gun on them. Keep
quiet" he said through the paper,
Keep quiet!"
Goes for Money.
The Hammacks were too astonished
to do anything else. But when the
robber, who evidently knew the place,
sidled toward Mr.. Hammack's money
grabbed it, Mr.. Hammack took advan-
tage Of one of the robbers blind sides
to grab him.
A struggle ensued. during which the
bag was ripped from the robbers head.
revealing the familiar face of a colored
man who had been a customer on pre-
vious visits. As the struggle pro-
gressed. Mr.. Hammack fixed his teeth
in the robbers cheek, a maneuver
Evening star., 1933-12-18
ROSTERS is QUESTIONED
IN CROSS-EXAMINATION

Assistant Corporation Counsel Will
liam A. Roberts today began cross
examination of Stuart F. Rosters, ex-
pert witness who has spent the past two
weeks testifying on the original cost
of the Washington and Georgetown
Gas Light Cos. at their valuation case
before the Public Utilities Commis-
sion
Mr.. Rosters had built up a value Of
$19 1000, 900, much of 1t by estimates Of
costs prior to 1910, where he consid-
cred costs recorded In the books as un-
satisfactory for various reasons. His
estimates Of original costs Of gas mains
formed the starting point for Mr.
Ec5cr,S' Gu-ssicns.
Evening star., 1933-12-18
A. p. MORRIS FUNERAL
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
c. C. c. Construction Engineers
Body Being Returned Here
From Vermont Today.

Anthony Paul Morris, so. a construc-
ton engineer with the Civilian Con-
servation Corps, died at Montpelier, VT.
Friday. His body was brought to this
city, and funeral services will be held
tomorrow at pm. at the Joseph Gawlcr
Sons Chapel, 1854 Pennsylvania avenue.
Burial will be in Congressional Gene
terry.
He was a son of the late Mrs. Emma
T. Morris of Washington. He was n
veteran of the Spanish-American War
and had been active in South An erican
countries as mining engineer and rep
resentative of the Standard Oil Co.
His widow, Mrs. Hope Morris. survives
at AreZuipa, Peru.
Evening star., 1933-12-18
FARM W0MENHS MARKET
TO BE OPEN WEDNESDAY

Having opened their cooperative
market at 728 Eighth street southeast
Saturday, the farm women of Prince
Georges County announced today that
they will again offer standardized farm
and home products for sale at the
market Wednesday.
Throughout the remainder of the
Winter; Miss Ethel M. Regan, home
demonstration agent said, the market
will be open on Wednesdays ard Satur-
days.
Mrs. Charles Burgdorf of Seat Pleas
ant is president of the market, which
has been established in the headquar-
ters of the MARYLAND Egg Producers.
Evening star., 1933-12-18
PLAN TESTIMONIAL

A testimonial dinner in honor OF
Paul H. McMurray, retiring commander
of Sergt. Jasper Post, No. 13, American
Legion, will be held at the Hotel La
Thomas j. Frailey was appointed
chairman of the general committee in
charge by Joseph ]. Malloy. the newly
named commander of the post. Past
Comdr. John j. Orlosky will be in
charge of tickets rn1 william A. Nc
Ccilrtfl VII hc trla rT
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Legion Officers to Be Installed.

BETHESDA, Md, December Is (Spe-
ciaD Newly elected cdicers of Be-
thesda-Chevy Chase Post. No. LOS,
American Legion, will be Installed to-
morrow night at a dinner meeting
scheduled for the Columbia Country
Club, in CheYy Chase, at O'Clock.
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Malt Barley a Superior Type

need feed, should plant the barley likely to
yield best. The feed barley grown in some
sections, as for example in Northwest Kansas.
is accepted by some markets as . brewing
barley when the quality is good Where land
will produce as much mating barley per acre
as feed barley, farmers are fully JUSTIFIED In
growing the mailing varieties. They may sell
it either for feed or for mailing, whichever
use is the more profitable.
Barley Is now grown in the areas best adapted
to the crop. Other areas have to contend with
exceptional disease hazards, difficulties in pro-
ducing high quality grain, and other handi-
caps. Western New York, Northern Illinois
and parts Of Wisconsin. Minnesota, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and Kansas are
the most favorable mailing barley sections. In
all these areas. however, the best adapted SEC
tions are rather limited. Good barley may be
grown in small areas in other States. In favor
able seasons high quality barley is produced
over wide area.
Brewers require barley that has plump ker-
nels and good hulls. 1t should be wen grown
and well ripened with mellow kernels. There
must be little threshing damage and the barley
must be practically free from diseased and
moldy kernels.
Evening star., 1933-05-14

THE advent Of legal beer, which raised the
] hopes Of many farmers that they might
profit through raising barley for mailing pur-
poses, is considered likely to have little or no
effect on the prosperity Of the farmer. for the
present premium paid for mailing barley would
disappear if any quantity much in excess OF
present supplies should be raised. Then, too.
all sections are not suitable for raising malt
ing barley, which must be Of q higher quality
than barley used for feed. DR.. H. v. Harlan
of the Department of Agriculture points out
that.
In 1917 the barley crop was 211, 900 900
bushels, about 100000 bushels of which
went into the production of malt. The amount
of barley needed to make a bushel GA pounds)
Of malt varies, but it is always less than the
amount of the malt The barley used for malt
in 1917 produced 80 000, 900 bushels of the lat
ter commodity. Mailing barley usually COM
mands a premium over feed barley. But since
only about third of the 1917 crop went into
malt. the barley growers chance of mailing
premium was only one in three
Barley production now is much greater than
it was in 1917. The 1892 crop exceeded 3OO,-
100000 bushels. On that basis the chance for
a mailing premium, assuming demand equal
to that of 1917 would be only about one In four
Bailey production has jumped In the last
Is years owing to increasing appreciation Of
barley value as feed. But a mailing market
exists and farmers in certain favored sections
can grow barley as a cash crop. Outside these
favored areas, however, growing barley IN the
hope of mailing premiums is highly specu-
lative enterprise. Where mailing varieties yield
less than the varieties usually grown for feed,
the possible rewards do not as . rule balance
the risks. Farmers in such localities, II they
Evening star., 1933-05-14

close Of the public schools. Miss Feeser was
formerly art instructor at the Eastern High
School Lansing, Mich, and has not only had
experience in teaching but exhibiting art
ist, . member of the Lansing Artists Club.
Glasses IN landscape and other kinds Of
painting will be held both indoors and out.
Margarete Lent will instruct in landscape in
water color. Marguerite Neale True will con-
duct classes IN pencil and pen and ink draw
ing for beginners Benson Moore win hold
day y-time classes in etching
In the commercial department there will be
added an advanced class for advanced pupils
and professionals Ada Klein Peter will con-
tinue her classes in costume design.
Evening star., 1933-05-14

new junior department for school children
from through high school age wiz be de-
veloped this Summer along the most uIHto-date
principles
An exhibition Of the work Of students of this
school Is now ON display. The public Is invited
to visit the exhibition, 1924 H street, on Mon
day, wednesday or Friday evenings when the
classes are in session, or any day before
$3.50 pm.
children portraits in pastel by Edith Nc
~ Cartney constitute an exhibition at the Art
League Of Washington which cannot fail to
make unusual appeal, especially IS among the
IL works shown are portraits Of Sistie and
Evening star., 1933-05-14

Buzzie Dali, grandchildren Of the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt, painted in the White House
last month. These, like other portraits by the
same artist show the heads drawn and modelled
in full color on gray paper or pastel board,
while the figures are sketchily indicated In line.
There Is something very naive about them.
something which seems to conserve the fresh-
ness and sparkle of childhood and indicate on
the part Of the artist sympathetic understand.
ing. This Is indeed . children's party in which
the little sons and daughters of well known
Washingtonians, as well as distinguished visit
ors, are brought together happily.
With her portraits in pastel, Edith Mccartney
is showing y way Of novelty . half dozen
strong portraits Of men done in black crayon
and white chalk On dark gray backgrounds.
They are very effective.
Also ut the Art League Of Washington may
be seen, now. sculpture in porcelain and terra
Gotta by Kathleen Wheeler-horses and hounds
sporting subjects, very well modelled and
especially interestingaat this season when horse
shows and riding are the order Of the day.
w. c. Emerson's lyrical landscapes. to which
reference has already been made in these cole
umns will continue on view At the Art League
for . fortnight
Meanwhile, opening next Tuesday and COM
tinuing until June l, will be q special and quite
unusual exhibition OF work by children Of from
Art Appreciation for Children conducted most
successfully by Margaret Mof1at Yard.
A N exhibition sponsored by the ARTS Group
Of Washington" an organization of COM
paratively recent formation, and assembled By
Ada Rainey, well known both as writer and
lecturer, will be opened to the public next FRI
day afternoon at Hechts. This will consist
of II rooms In which paintings viii be a part
of the ensemble and corridor gallery where
they will be hung separately. Among the art
lists exhibiting will be Nine. Veverka, wife ID
the Minister from Czechoslovakia; Helen Sey.
mour, Bertha Noyes, Louise and Charles Hoover,
Charles Dunn, all members of the Arts Groups
Sewel Johnston. Charles Val Clear, AzadiS
Herman. Mrs. George Oakley Totten and viu>
cent Saline of the Art League: Edgar -Nye.
Roland Lyon, May Ashton, Alexis Many Alice
L L. Ferguson and Marguerite Neuhauser, rep.
resenting in part the left wing" or more adj
venturous modernists. There viii be q private
view Thursday afternoon, for which cards are
being Issued
IN q note on the sculpture Of Vincent Saline
ON this page last week. the artists name vas
spelled with an r" instead Of an g." through
error. Also, the address of Dumbarton HUuso
Evening star., 1933-05-14
Auto Ownership Reduced

NNLY one State, Washington, made gain in
~ automobile registration in 1882 over 1880.
according to figures issued by the Department
Of Agriculture. Washington, with $4,000, was
up per cent, but all other States and the
District Of Columbia showed decreases running
from I lilo per cent for Nevada up to Az
per cent for Arkansas.