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Evening star., 1933-11-28

programs Of clinics, nursing, education.
rehabilitation and research.
Il heartily recommend that We con-
tinue our support of these activities
through the purchase of Christmas
SEALS"
Release Four Pigeons.
Sisty and "Buzzie" Dali, children OF
Mrs. Anna Curtis Dali, and grandchil-
dren OF the President and Mrs. RooSe-
welt, early this morning released from
the White House four Army carrier
pigeons, each bearing a greeting from
the children to the opening luncheon
at hotel in New York City today of
the Crusade for Children.
The crusade for children Is a Joint
effort of seven child welfare agencies to
raise 100000 In New York City for
homeless and dependent children. The
effort is under auspices of the Child
Welfare League of America, an aSsoci-
alton of child welfare. agencies. which
promote throughout the country better
standards of child welfare work
Agencies included in the crusade are:
Department for homeless and transient
boys Of the Children's Aid Society, child
placing and adoption department of the
State Charities Aid Association, Society
for the Relief Of Destitute Children of
Seamen. Fellowship House of the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society, Home Bu-
reau OF the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society, Jewish Children's Clearing Bu-
reau. and the Child Welfare Leaede of
America.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
ALLEN SEES $1,000
PUT TO WORK HERE
New Commissioner Makes Forecast
at Dinner Given in His Honor
by Hotel Men.

The prediction that $4,000 unem-
current week in the District was made
yesterday by District Commissioner
George E. Allen at luncheon rendered
him at the Willard Hotel by the Hotel
Association of Washington.
Mr.. Allen formerly was general man
ager of Wardman Park Hotel and the
luncheon was given by his old asso-
ciates to congratulate him on his ap-
pointment to his present post.
Among those who paid him brief
tribute we're Thomas Carson of Wash
ington Properties. Inc; Augustus Gum
pert, secretary of the Washington Hotel
Association; Ralph Hitz. manager OF the
Hotel New Yorker; Walter Gregory OF
the Palmer House in Chicago: Fred A.
Muschenheim of the Astor Hotel in New
York; Barney Allen of the Baltimore
Hotel in Kansas City: E. c. Romine
hotel accountant: Frank McKeown
president of the Statler hotel chain; w
c. Rover formerly with the Atlanta
Biltmore in Atlanta, Ga; Thomas Green
of New York, president and general
director of the American Hotel Assocla-
ton, and Miss Mary A. Lindsey OF the
Dodge Hotel here.
The committee in charge OF the
luncheon included Ralph Polio, man
ager of the Mayflower Hotel; 5. E
Bonneville. manager of the washington
Hotel, and H. P. Sommerville. manager
of the Willard, who also acted as toast
master.
Evening star., 1933-11-28

lation increases placed new demands
on the school system and the old Van
Buren annex" once again housed
them.
Then there is that portable school
on the playground of the Ketcham
School. School officials had to put
that one-room wood and wallboard
structure into service to afford chill
dren room they sorely needed. 1t is
heated with big stove, too.
The proposed junior high school
would permit the abandonment of both
these relics of emergency days.
But it would do more. 1t would
afford relief to the Congress Heights,
Randle Highlands, Orr and the Stanton
Schools. too. All these buildings, in
addition to the Ketcham and the Van
Buren. are overcroWded now. The Con-
gress Heights, Ketcham, Randle High
lands and the Stanton Schools still
have seventh and eighth grade classes.
The Van Buren and Orr Schools have
only six grades. Hence. when pupils
are graduated" from the last-named
schools they find themselves promoted
to the already crowded first-named
buildings instead Of to junior high
school like the children in other sec
tions Of the District. This means that
these children are deprived of an
extra year of selective educational pro-
grams which the junior high schools
provide.
BY requiring the Anacostia children
to remain in elementary schools eight
years, circumstances necessitate their
attendance at senior high school four
years. Eastern High School. to which
the Southeast Washington schools send
their graduates. now is SO badly jam
med with an excess enrolment of 800
students that it is on a staggered"
program. This means that its first
classes go to work at $50 am and that
its final classes adjourn about 4:3C
pm. The Anacostia Junior High
School, while admittedly not designed TO
reduce Eastern's congestion to the point
where the staggered program could be
dropped would relieve the senior high
school considerably by holding back
large class of pupils for an entire
year. Eastern's real relief will come
only with construction of its own an
mex with accommodations for l,500 stu
dents. This structure is being contem-
plated now, although no definite steps
toward it have been made.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Kate Smith on Air
Tonight in Plea
For Chest Support
"SOngbird' Viii Present
Her Stage Shoe in Spe-
cidI Program.

Arranged at the direct solicitation OF
Kate Smith, "Songbird of the South"
an elaborate radio show will be pre-
sented tonight from II to II o'clock
over WJSv for the Community Chest
drive. The show was made possible
through the cooperation of Miss Smith.
her band, Ted Collins, her manager. the
Fox Theater and the Community Chest
Kate. herself. will, of course. be the
main attraction, but she is bringing her
entire stage show and the Fox TneateT
Orchestra to help make this the finest
Chest Frank J. Hogan. Community
Chest campaign chairman. and Newbold
Noyes, the president of the Chest, will
make five-minute talks on the program.
II have broadcast for all sorts of
charitable enterprises" Miss Smith said
this morning, "but nothing has given
me so much Of thrill as the oppor-
tunity to broadcast for the Community
Chest of my own city When I read in
the newspapers yesterday just how
much small amount each month will
do, made up my mind that I was
going in some way to ask Washington
to contribute some of those small sums,
and the best way I know to do it is on
the air. where I am better known than
anywhere else
A fine gesture was made by the local
Musicians Union by its president A. c.
Hayden. the union waving its stand
by" privileges so that the out-of town
band brought here by Miss Smith can
take the air without cost to the Chest
Evening star., 1933-11-28
FUNDS TO Be GIVEN
CITIES TO BUY MILK
Washington Included in List
Due to Get Money for
Feeding Destitute.

Funds for purchase of surplus milk
to feed destitute unemployed will be
furnished communities throughout the
country. including Washington, as
rapidly as plans for its distribution are
worked out and submitted to the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administration,
Harry L. Hopkins, administrator, an
nounced late yesterday.
Hopkins statement was made at
his regular semi-weekly press confer
ence during discussion of the proposal
of Representative Crosby, Democrat. of
Pennsylvania. to buy third-class milk,
on which dairy farmers take a loss.
and distribute it to needy Washing
tonians
The relief administrator made it
plain that ALLEGATION of any funds to
the District would depend entirely on
whether the Commissioners feel they
can evolve a suitable plan to purchase
and distribute the surplus milk to the
destitute. The same situation holds
true elsewhere in the country, Hopkins
said, in announcing that other plans
for the distribution of fluid surplus
milk ale under consideration.
District Commissioner Allen told
newspaper men yesterday he was max
ing study of the economic feasibility"
of Crosby's plan and had come to no
definite decision as to whether 1t would
be more advantageous to contract di-
rect with the farmers for milk or con-
tinue the present system of giving the
hungry unemployed tickets to buy food
at grocery stores.
He said there would be a great lessen
ing of need on the part of the unem-
pl0yed this Winter due to the operation
Of civil work projects which rapidly are
absorbing those now on relief rolls.
NEW SESSION CALLED.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
BACK
bank MERGER PLAN
Mt. Vernon Receives Waivers
Representing SIS Per Cent
of Required Amount.

Making good progress in its plans
to reopen as part of the new Mechan-
ics-Franklin Savings Bank merger, the
Mount Vernon Savings Bank today had
received waivers from depoSitor repre-.
senting IS per cent of the amount
necessary.
These depositors, holding 100000,
already have signed waivers by which
they will receive 40 per cent of their
deposits when the bank reopens, 1eav-
ing the remainder in the hands of
three trustees
Sale of stock in the bank, at $40 a
share, also is progressing, it was an
nounced by Frank w. Lee, president of
the Mount Vernon, who Is to be vice
president of the Mechanics Franklin
Savings Bank. Fully SO per cent. or
$4,000 worth Of this stock has been
to the amount not yet announced
which has been sold by the Mechanics
Franklin Bank.
Depends on Depositors.
The reopening of the bank now de-
pends largely on depositors and the
speed with which they return waiv-
ers, it was explained, as it will be
necessary for the full amount to be
signed up before the bank can reopen.
The amount required is rs per cent Of
the total deposits Of the bank.
Officials of the Mount Vernon are
looking forward to cooperation from
several unions which have large de-
posits, but which will not be able to
take formal action until their annual
meetings, early in December. Indica-
tions are that the unions will Cooper
ate fully in the plan for reopening.
They are the Machinists' International
Union, Bricklayers, the National Fed
Grafton Of Post Office Clerks and the
American Federation of Labor.
Progress Made at Franklin.
Steady progress Is being made at the
Franklin National Bank, which Is to
be a member of the new merger. OFF,
cials of the merger, the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and the Treasury
Department were still working at the
Franklin Bank on details necessary be-
fore a decision can be reached on how
much the depositors will receive.
1t has been indicated the depositors
probably will receive between IS and
rs per cent, waving the remainder into
the hands of three trustees.
Ezra Gould, president of the Wash
ington Mechanics Savings Bank, Is
gratified at the progress.
AS soon as the amount to be re-
leased to Franklin depositors is de-
termined, the Franklin will send out its
waivers to depositors, and launch a
campaign to sell 100000 Of stock In
the merged bank.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
d. C.. to Be Part of Laboratory
For Tick Feuer Eradication
Project Will Also Be Undertaken in Vir.
ginia, Maryland and Delaware
Under Auspices of Civil Works.

places in fallen timber, decaying logs
and under vegetation.
Brushy weed growthS, on which the
ticks wait for passage Of animals during
the Spring and Summer months, also
will be burned away.
Great Reduction Aimed At.
DR.. Bishopp does not believe the
ticks can be entirely eradicated IN
this area, but is confident that in
telligent work will greatly reduce their
number, particularly near habitations
where they are now abundant. Re-
duction of the number q ticks ma
terially lessons the possibility of trans
mission of disease by the ticks, which
carry other diseases as well as the
Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
DR.. Bishopp said no effort could
be made by the group under his
direction to eradicate game animals.
such as rabbits and squirrels in the
tick warfare. The tick campaigners
will not be equipped with facilities to
deal with the larger rodents.
Several sections of Maryland also
will be concentrated upon. while in
Mount Airy and on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland and Virginia, where the
spotted fever has been found in the
past three years.
In Delaware. most of the work will
be done about Delaware City and
Fort DUPONT. where the fever has
cropped up and ticks are reported par
ticularly abundant.
Work in Other Sections.
There also will be some work by the
District corps of tick campaigners in
the Northeast and Southeast sections
of the city
DR.. Bishop said the C. w. A. tick
campaign will provide the Bureau of
Entomology with very valuable yard
stick with which to measure the results
that can be obtained from work of this
sort. AS companion work, the tick
will be measured next Spring
to get an accurate check on results.
The division of the tick campaign
forces Is as follows, not including the
experts from the Bureau of Entomol-
ogy:
. District of Columbia, 80 men; Mary
land, ITS men; Virginia, 80 men; Della
ware, IS men.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
ROOSEVELT OPENS
YULE SEALS SALE
President Calls Upon People
of Country to Aid Fight
on Tuberculosis.

The Nationwide fight against tuber-
eulosis through sale of Christmas seals
was opened today by statement from
President Roosevelt commencing the
campaign and calling upon the people
Of Of, the country to purchase seals and nd
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Mrs. Roosevelt bought the seals at
the foot of the portico steps in the
rear grounds of the White House from
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Blaine Gwin, of
1906 T street. This little SaleSlady was
selected for this honor by officers of the
tuberculosis Association. The seals will
be or sale to the public from Thanks
giving day until Christmas day.
Statement Is Issued.
Mrs. Roosevelt made the purchase in
ter'S statement was made public at the
White House by Secretary Early.
The text of the statement follows:
Protection of public health long has
been one of the fundamental respon-
sibilitieS of government and in the
period of adjustment through which
we are now passing that responsibility
has increased In the scheme of re-
covery, organizations which devote
themselves to public health work are
serving the Government by supplement-
ing the activities of its established
health departments.
THE sale of Christmas seals will
open on Thanksgiving day. They will
be sold by 1000 affiliated tuberculosis
associations throughout the country.
With the proceeds derived from this
sale, these associations finance their
Evening star., 1933-11-28

to do so. decided not to advertise for
bids after all.
Meanwhile, the need for the junior
high school in the AnacoStia section
will continue to impress itself upon the
pupils and teachers of no less than
seven school buildings. 1t will continue
the entire section of the District of
Columbia lying east of the Anacostia
River as the only section of the Capital
without any junior high school facilities
One of the chief effects of the delay
in construction of the junior high
school will be the continued use of the
Van BUren School annex" that weird
looking three-story. six-room contrap-
ton that was erected in 1881. The
building. which relies upon oldfash-
ioned stoves set up in halls and in
class rooms in which pupils desks are
less than 5 feet away, is called an AN
mex out of courtesy. 1t was put into
service in 1881 as the Van Buren,
School. In 10 years. however, the struc-
ture was proven inadequate and a new
building was constructed on the rear
of its lot that extended through to the
next block
The name Van Buren" was trans
ferred to the new structure which was
opened in 1891 and the original struc-
ture was called the Van Buren School
Annex" The old building was allowed
to stand and certain carpenter shops
for boys were moved into it.
Then came the World War. Popu-
Evening star., 1933-11-28

A 52YEAR-OLD school building
~ that was adjudged unfit for
~ service more than 80 years ago
4 4 and a decrepit frame portable
that has been meeting enroll
ment emergencies" since the DAYS of
the World War. must continue to house
classes of Southeast Washington school
children because of postponement of
construction of the junior high school
in Anacostia.
Admitting the need for the proposed
and as yet unnamed junior high school.
Congress appropriated 1925 900 TO begin
its construction and authorized the
Commissioners Ito enter into contract
or contracts for such building at a cost
not to exceed s456 600" Congress made
the money available and gave the
authorization to the Commissioners
July /. 1882, when the 1888 appropria-
ton act became effective.
Ready for Bids.
With money to begin construction,
and congressional authorization to
enter into contracts with builder. for
16 months. the Commissioners were pre-
pairing to advertise for bids on the
structure last week when Director OF
the Budget Douglas passed the word
down that no funds for completion OF
the school would be available in the
1885 money bill that is being set up
now. Then the Commissioners. who
still have congressional authorization
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The District is to be made part of the
laboratory to wipe out one of the most
battling diseases with which man has
been called upon to deal-"tick fever" D."
or the Eastern manifestation of the
dread Rocky Mountain spotted fever
under the Civil Works Administration.
The c. w. A. yesterday approved a
project for putting to work, under the
Bureau of Entomology of the Agriculture
Department, 1863 men to wage an inten-
sive warfare on the ticks which are the
carriers of the disease. The men will
be employed in Virginia. Maryland and
Delaware also.
Comparatively new to the East, hav.
ing made its appearance here only about
three years ago, the tick fever" already
has claimed several victims. and its
for many years been confined to the
Rocky Mountain area. has been grad
ually gaining each Spring and Summer.
Concentrated in Northwest.
The warfare on the ticks will be con-
centrated in the northwest area of the
District and nearby Maryland, where
tlcKS nave not only been found IN open,
brushy areas, but actually in back yards
in thickly populated sections.
This area extends through much of
the northwest section of the city and
into Maryland, through Somerset, por-
tions of Chevy Chase, Bethesda and
Kenwood
Within a few days the C. w. A. work
ers, under the supervision of experts
provided by the Bureau of Entomology,
headed by DR.. F. c. Bishopp, chief OF
the division of insects harmful to men
and animals. will go out into the areas
known to be infested with ticks and
attempt to clean them out.
Particular attention will be paid, DR.
Bishopp said today. to eradicating the
small hosts of ticks which carry them
about and feed them during the early
Spring breeding time. The warfare will
be waged on small field and house mice,
field rats and other small rodents to
which the ticks fasten themselves after
their Winter Information.
Along with this work of eradicating
the small rodents. will be carried on
extensive work of destroying tick-hiding
Evening star., 1933-11-28
THREE YOUTHS JAILED
FOR ASSAULT FREED
Charges Dismissed-Trio Arrested
Month Ago When Roommate
Was Found Injured.

An assault case against three youths.
who have spent more than a month in
Jail awaiting trial, was dismissed in
Police Court today on recommendation
Of Assistant United States Attorney
Roger Robb.
The complaining witness. Clifton j.
Day, said he occupied an apartment
with the trio-Bob O'Neil Hoyte Brown
and Warren Winders-at 1904 QAStreet.
He testified he had gone to bed vn the
night of October 10 and had been
picked up unconscious in the alley un-
der the third floor window the next
morning He did not regain conscious
ness for seven days, when he awoke in
Emergency Hospital the court was told.
After hearing all the testimony in
the case, Robb recommended dismissal
for lack of evidence against the three
defendants. They were released by
Judge Isaac R. Hit.
They told the court there had been
no argument the night before he was
found unconscious.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
FAMILY WHO WOULDN'T GIVE UP
CONQUERS ADVERSELY ON FARM

The Sturdivants-father, mother and
son-just wouldn't give up in the face
of adversely and because of their per-
sistence and courage they are now
comfortably settled in a farm house
near Dublin. Va.
Their new home is warm and snug.
considerably better than the two-room
make-shift cottage the father built ad-
joining their garden on the waste lands
behind Nineteenth and A streets SOUTH
east which have been assigned to the
unemployed There a Star reporter
found them last month. He wrote the
story which brought the head of the
family, william r. Sturdivant. his new
job.
Mrs Margaret S. Snead. case worker
for the Emergency Relief, clipped the
story from The Star and sent 1t to
distant relatives of Sturdivant in
Pulaski County, Va. They had it pub
Evening star., 1933-11-28
Considers Making Sixteenth
Street 0ne-Way Artery
During Rush.
BELIEVES CR0SS.TOWN
THOROUGHFARE NEEDED
Small Lights May Be Turned Of
in Hours When There Is
Little Movement.

Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen an
nounced today he proposed to make a
serious study Of the Districts traffic
situation, chiefly to develop a plan to
expedite movement of trafte during
the morning and afterno>n rush hours.
One of the proposals to be con1idered,
the Commissioner said, is establishment
of several high-speed Gn5-way thor
oughfares during the rush periods only.
The remainder of the day these thor
oughfares would be open to two-way
traffic.
Sixteenth street was mentioned by
Mr.. Hazen as one of the thoroughfares
adaptable to one way rush hour use
In the morning from to 9, he said,
the street would be used for south
bound traffic only, and in the afternoon
from 4:30 to $50 O'Clock. only north
bound traffic would be permitted to
use 1t.
Movement Not Expedited.
The Commissioner pointed out that
Sixteenth street now carries a large
volume of the north and south bound
rllSh-hour traffic. but the movement is
not as expeditions as it would be if
the thoroughfare is made one way dur
ing the rush periods. He said he uses
Sixteenth street frequently in going to
and from his home and has observed
that there is comparatively little north
bound traffic in the morning or south
bound traffic in the afternoon.
Mr.. Hazen also believes at least one
crosS-town thoroughfare might be made
a one-way artery during the rush peri
DDS to handle the volume of traffic
originating in the area west of Rock
Creek.
Considers Turning of Lights.
Operation of traffic lights outside Of
the congested district during the rush
hours only is another proposal to be
considered by Mr.. HaZen. He said he
had been told that some of the lights,
particularly those in the Outlying sec
tions, were not necessary after the
rush hours, when traffic is light. and
might be turned off during a major
portion of the day, with saving to
the District in electric bills.
Traffic Director Van Duzer made a
study of the light situation some time
ago and removed a number on K street
northeast. where traffic counts showed
the number of vehicles passing totaled
less than 1000 an hour. He believes
lights should be maintained at all in
tersections where the volume Of traffic
reaches that mark
Evening star., 1933-11-28

lished in a county newspaper and W.
w. Kline. Roanoke. Va, contractor, saw
it. He was impressed and Immediately
wrote Mrs. Snead offering Sturdivant
the job of caring for his farm near
Dublin. The money was raised and the
family sent to their new home a few
days after the original story was pub
lished
The Sturdivants were just another
family hit hard by the depression, but
they refused to give up. Necessity
forced the father on the rolls of the
Emergency Relief, where he received
s8.40 every two weeks on which to sup
port his wife and their 4l2-year-old
son, Dudley Kent. They took up one
of the garden plots set aside for the
unemployed and Sturdivant, a car
penter, built home there. During the
Summer his wife canned IA dozen jars
Of vegetables grown on the lot.
Evening star., 1933-11-28
PAIR OF COLORED SHOPLIFTERS
RECEIVE HEAVY SENTENCES

She was sentenced to serve $50 days
on the shoplifting charge, to which she
pleaded guilty. and five days for dis
orderly conduct, on which charge she
was found guilty.
The court was told that she had been
arrested on similar charges on IA pre-
vious occasions.
Spencer, who was sentenced to serve
six months, after pleading guilty, was
said by Detectives T. j. Sullivan and
Guy Rome. to have employed an old
box trick" With tied-up dress box
he would sidle up to a glove or hosiery
counter, slip articles inside through q
loose flap and saunter away. the OH
GERS said.