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Evening star., 1934-12-06
KING MAY CONFER
WITH ROOSEVELT.
Conference Seen Tomorrow
in Various D. C. Problems
Up to Congress.

Chairman King of the Senate Dis.
trict Committee may call at the White
House tomorrow to carry out his re-
Gently announced intention to seek
a conference with President Roosevelt
on various District problems likely to
arise in Congress this Winter. The
Senator said he would make the call
either tomorrow or at the earliest
convenient time.
One Of the local measures Senator
King plans to reintroduce in January
is the District old-age pension bill,
which got out of committee, but failed
Of action in the Senate and House
at the last session
Senator King said that If Congress
is going to consider national old-age
pension legislation the District Com
mittee may wait to see what form
the national measure will take. but
that he will introduce a local bill and
have it ready for consideration.
There were a number OF other local
bills which Congress did not have time
to consider in the closing weeks of
the last session and which probab bly,
will be reintroduced.
Aside from new legislation. one of
the most important local problems to
come up this Winter will be the ques-
tion of fiscal relations, in connection
with the District appropriation bill.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
SCHOOL OFFICIALS
REVIEW BUDGET
Troublesome Task Is Presented
Education Heads Third
Time This Year.

School officials today were under
going a severe attack of budget trou-
bles-their third this year.
The first was the worry and study
of preparing estimates. The second
and more severe seizure came when
they saw the Commissioners WELD
the pruning knife. looping of items
here and there.
Now the requested 1886 appropria-
ton for the school system has come
back to them after treatment by the
Budget Bureau.
The estimates were sent to the
school heads by the Commissioners
as part of the process of preparing
justifications for the requested items
which will have weight with Congress.
The officials also may attempt to
bargain with the Commissioners for
reinstatement of certain items.
The law prohibits budgetary details
being made public before submission
to Congress.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
Joseph W. Sanford Is Expected
To Head District Penal System,
Former Washingtonia,,
Slated to Succeed
Capt. Barnard.
NOw Is Superintendent
of US. Refornatory
in Ohio.

Joseph w. Sanford, superintendent
OF the Federal reformatory at Chilli
cothe, Ohio, appeared today to be the
probable choice of the Board of Public
Welfare as the new general superin-
tendent of District penal institutions.
1t was revealed several days ago that
the two leading candidates were San
ford and Col. William L. Peak, head of
the District Reformatory at Lorton,
Va.
Judge Michael M. Doyle, chairman
of the Penal Committee of the Board
of Public Welfare announced today
Sanford would be given an opportunity
to appear Monday before the full
membership of the Welfare Board.
Action on the appointment of the
successor to Capt. M. M. Barnard as
penal head is to be taken up after
Sanford's appearance The Welfare
Board Tuesday gave an audience to
Col Peak.
1t is known that Sanford has strong
backing among District officials. He
has been an official of the Federal
Reformatory in Ohio for several years
and superintendent since early this
year. For several years previously he
served as chief probation officer of the
Evening star., 1934-12-06
BUDGET HEARINGS
DELAY INDICATED
D. c. Measure Not Yet Submitted
to House Subcommittee
for Study.

Hearings on the District appropria-
ton bill, scheduled tentatively to
start Monday before subcommittee
of the House Appropriations Commit
tee, probably will not get under way
before Wednesday, as the District
budget has not yet been informally
submitted in confidence to the COM
mittee.
However. it is expected by those in
charge of the program for the appro-
priation bills that the hearings will
start next Monday on the Treasury
Post Office and the State-Justice-
Commerce and Labor bills.
The subcommittee headed by Chair
man Woodrum of Virginia is continu-
ing its hearings on the independent
Offices appropriation bill, which is the
first to be presented to the House as
soon as it organizes. This bill will
set the policy for restoration of SAL
aries for Government employees and
similar personnel economy provisions.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
REPEAL SEEN AID
TO D. c. TREASURY
Receipts Swelled S1,179,611 in
Taxes, Fees and Fines,
0ffutt Reports.

The District treasury has been
ewelled by the receipt of S1179,6ll in
taxes, fees and fines as result Of re-
peal of prohibition, 1t was reported to-
day by George w. Offutt, chairman of
the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
The estimate covered receipts from
February to December l.
Offutt believes legal sale of liquor
has served to stimulate employment
to a considerable degree and boosted
the business of hotels and restaurants.
A survey of 25 per cent of the Ii
censed liquor dealers last Summer
showed 1880 additional employees had
been added to local pay rolls as a
result Of the return of the liquor
business. At least twice this number
have been employed. on a conservative
estimate, Offutt said.
He notes that since last February
arrests for intoxication and deaths in
automobile accidents have increased
Ofutt said he believes. however, that
the decrease in the total number of
automobile accidents is a better re-
Election of the effect of repeal than
merely the number of traffic acci-
dents.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
"W COM NJ ENDED
FOR NAVY YARD WEEK
Capt. Edward S. Jackson Speaks
at Celebration Opening Week
at Central Y. M. c. A.

Capt. Edward S. jackson. u S. N,
captain of the Washington Navy Yard,
commended the Young Mems Chris
tian Association for its observance OF
Navy Yard week" at a celebration
last night opening the week at the
Central Y. M. c. A.
Speaking in behalf Of Rear Ad-
miral Joseph r. Defrees, commandant
of the yard, and other naval officials.
Capt. Jackson urged hundreds of
navy yard men at the entertainment
to take advantage of the Y. M. c. A.
offer of free use of its facilities until
December 13. A navy yard pass will
be the equivalent of a membership
card during the courtesy week, it was
announced by Randolph E. Myers,
membership secretary.
The celebration featured vaudeville
and athletic stunts, and there were
boxing, wrestling and fencing bouts,
hand ball and squash contests, SWIM
ming and fancy diving exhibitions,
acrobatics and strong man" feats.
Leonard w. De Cast, general sec
retary Of the Y. M. C. A., welcomed
the navy yard men on behalf of the
association.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
PARLEY ON STREAM
POLLUTION OPENS
National Conference Seeks
Watershed Commission
to Control Problem.

A national conference on stream
pollution, out of which it was expect
ed definite recommendations would be
made to Congress for some form oi
Federal control over the problem
opened today in the ONCE Of Secre-
tary OF War Dern.
More than 20 national experts and
leaders in the movement met with
Secretary Dern. whose department has
control over all Federal expenditures
in connection with rivers and harbors
Senator Augustine Lonergan of Con-
necticut had issued the call for the
conference after more than a year Of
effort to establish some effective
means to eliminate pollution.
Seek Watershed Body.
Creation Of a watershed commits
sion which would control stream pol
luton under broad powers. conferred
upon it by the Federal Government
and by the States. it was said. will
be one of the main proposals to be
considered. A dozen other proposals,
it was said, had been submitted in
advance of the conference.
The conference is of particular in
terest to Washington at this time. in
view of the steps being taken here to
improve the conditions of the Potomac
River. District taxpayers already are
obligated to the extent of $4,000, 900
in P w. A. funds to build a sewage
disposal plant which would help rem
edy the problem. More recently the
Public Works Administration allotted
$3.50 to make study of pollution
in Rock Greek, which flows into the
Potomac.
Deliberation OF the questions in
volved was to continue during the aft
ernoon at a luncheon conference in
the University Club.
President to Get Proposal.
Senator Lonergan. leader in the
movement, said the conference would
place its proposals before the Pres
ident and Congress, where he would
continue to insist on some definite ac-
ton during the coming session.
Some of these proposals. he said,
would increase the powers of the Sec
retary of War over navigable streams
Others would strengthen quarantine
laws to give the Federal Government
broader general powers over all
streams touching different States, and
still others would control pollution
through an agreement of industries
working under N. r. A. codes.
Among the Federal experts attend
ing the conference are DR.. Henry
Baldwin Ward, Smithsonian Institu-
ton, an eminent authority on stream
purification; Frank T. Bell, commits
sioner of the Bureau of Fisheries; DIR.
M. M. Ellis of the Bureau of Fish
cries; w. C. Mendenhall, director of the
Geological Survey; Carl Shoemaker.
secretary Of the Senate Wild Life
Committee; Thorndike Saville, execu-
tive engineer. water resources section,
National Resources Board; J. N. Dar-
ling. chief of the Biological Survey,
and Charles E. jackson. deputy COM
missioner, Bureau of Fisheries.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
HOUSING STANDARDS
RAISING IS NEEDED.
John Ihlder Seeks to Prevent De.
velopment of Packing Box
Suburbs.

Raising Of standards for housing is
needed here to prevent development
Of packing box" suburbs. John Ihlder,
executive director OF the Washington
Alley Authority, declared last night.
Addressing the Federation OF Archi-
tectS, Engineers and Chemists at the
Young Mems Christian Association,
1hlder described the present trend to-
ward low standard cheap housing in
Washington suburbs as a menace to
decent standards.
This situation, developing by reason
OF lack of sufficient financing BY the
poorer classes, he said, may lead to a
condition that would rival the Wash
ington alley dwelling sections.
He took the position that the Gov
ernment should give adequate relief
TO the destitute to avoid such develop
ments; that efforts should be made
TO require that housing be kept up to
bstandards.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
6. v. j. BUILDING
PLANS SCANNED
Trustees Meet to Consider
Proposal for $4,000
Structure.

The trustees Of George Washington
University were to meet late today to
consider a proposal to construct .
100000, four-story building in the
heart of the present university group.
The new structure would house
several administrative Offices and the
biological sciences section of the in
stitution. Three buildings, at 2027-
1881 G street, would be razed to make
way for the new unit, declared neceS-
sary to meet the university's growth.
Plans for the structure, filed at the
office of the District building inspector,
call for building of poured concrete
with cubic content Of 499. .786 feet.
1t would be 101 feet wide, 1914 feet
deep and 621z feet in height.
Plain Design Planned.
In order to conform with the other
George Washington units, the pro-
posed building is of plain design. with
white Colonial finish. Stair towers
at either end would break the severe
effect. A greenhouse on the roof of
be used by the botany classes, would
further tighten the general impression.
On the first floor would be Offices
Of the deans of the Columbian and
Junior Colleges, Offices of the registrar
and offices and meeting rooms of
the Graduate Council In addition,
there would be two large class rooms
capable of seating 100 students each.
The second floor would be divided
into seven class rooms, three with a
seating capacity of IS students and
four with a 100-student capacity each.
Library on Third Floor.
Offices and laboratories for the
zoology department and a biological
sciences library will occupy the third
story.
On the fourth floor would be offices
and laboratories of the botany and
biology departments, with each de-
partment having research and
teaching laboratory.
There would be Photographic
room, research laboratory and a
mems lounge in the basement.
Plans were prepared by members Of
the Engineering School faculty.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
STUDENTS INJURY CITED
IN TRAFFIC LIGHTS BID
Controls at Two intersections
Asked at Roosevelt High
PIT. A. Meeting.

Installation of traffic lights on Up
shur street at Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets and at Fourteenth and
Varnum streets was urged last night
by the Roosevelt High School Parent
Teacher Association at meeting in
the school,
Serious injuries received Tuesday by
Adrienne Hayes, a junior at Roosevelt,
were cited as an example of the dam
ger of allowing students to cross at un-
controlled intersections
Allan Davis, principal of the school,
discussed the sale of liquor in the
vicinity of Roosevelt and said the prob
lem was one for the citizens of the
community rather than the school,
A portrait of the late Edward r..
Williams, past president of the asso-
citation, was presented to the school
in the name of the parent-teacher
group by c. c. Hutchinson.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
WIDER ROADS HELD
ACCIDENT REMEDY
Stricter Enforcement o
Law Also Advocated at
Highway Session.

Wider highways and stricter en-.
forcement of traffic laws were advo-
Gated today before the Highway Re.
search Board, meeting in the first gen.
eral session Of its fourteenth annua,
convention in the building of the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences and Ma.
tional Research Council.
r. L. Morrison, chairman Of the
boards Committee on Highway Trans.
portation Economics. said it would bs
more economical to build 2o-foot high
ways than 18-foot highways when fig
uring cost of accidents as against con.
struction cost.
He estimated the cost of the averag,
accident at $500. and fixed at abou
s450 per mile the additional cost O.
making a road 20 feet, instead of II
feet, wide.
Cites Various Figures.
The speaker presented variou,
statistics concerning the increase ir
accidents on an l8-foot roadway, a;
compared with the wider one, showing
in one group an increase of l2O pei
cent.
Morrison is professor Of highway
engineering at the University ot
Michigan.
c. B. Breed. professor at the Massa.
chusetts Institute Of Technology, at
tributed the greater number of &C.
cidents on the 18-foot highways to
careless drivers.
Il think We should spend more
money on policing and enforcing
rather than in widening roadways to
give the careless driver more leeway,'
Prof. Breed said.
Prof. Breed said he had done much
research work into accidents and
found carelesSneSs caused a great
percentage of them. He said police
findings on accidents frequently were
inaccurate and did not get to the real
cause. He attributed this to lack
of time for proper investigation.
A paper on The Effect of Heavy
Motor Vehicles on Highway Costs, -
by F. LAWS. New York consulting en-
gineer. was read by r. w. Crum. di-
rector of the Highway Research Board.
The principal conclusion in the paper
was that the various elements of de-
sign of modern highways, except pos
sibly the thickness of the pavement.
are determined by requirements of
private passenger automobiles, which
comprise more than 80 per cent of
all motor vehicles.
I'm any event." it was estimated,
"the additional cost of the extra
thickness for high-type pavements
cannot be estimated at over $4,000 to
$4,000 per mile"
Truck Loading Checked.
j. Trueman Thompson, professor OF
civil engineering at Johns Hopkins
University, said he had been conduct
ing a research in Maryland during
which loaded trucks were weighed to
determine the extent of loads being
carried. The ll2-ton truck, he said,
frequently was loaded to more than
five times the capacity called for.
William A. VanDuzer. Washington
trafflc director and chairman of the
boards Committee on Traffic, was to
report for the committee at another
session today on psychological tests
for drivers" The board will hold a
dinner in the Washington Hotel to-
night at o'clock and the meeting will
close tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
BABY SUPPLIES SOUGHT
BY MEDICAL AUXILIARY

Baby carriages, baby beds, infant
clothes and nursery supplies are being
sought by the Woman's Auxiliary of
the District of Columbia Medical So
ciety for distribution among poor pa
tients who are being continually dis
charged from the maternity wards OF
Gallinger Hospital.
In making plea to the public TO-
day Mrs Prentiss Wilson, chairman
of the auxiliary's Social Service Com
mittee, pointed out that many of
these needy patients leave the hos
pital without possessing necessary
clothing and supplies for the proper
care of newborn babies
Persons wishing to donate sick room
supplies or other articles may reach
Mrs. Wilson at Cleveland 1881. The
auxiliary will send for donations.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
SCHOOL PLANS BAZAAR

A Christmas bazaar and dance will
be given Saturday night by the
Alumnae Association of the Marjorie
Webster School, Rock Greek Park
Estates, in the auditorium of the
school. Those in charge are Miss
Edith Weatherby. Miss Marjorie Dun
ham and Miss Caroline Graham.
Booths are being provided for the
sale of food, dolls and miscellaneous
articles. Tables for bingo and cards
are also to be provided.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
HEURICH BREWING co.
100 PER CENT UNIONIZED
Plant Had Been on "Unfair List"
Despite High Wages and
Short Hours.

One hundred per cent unionization
of the Christian Heurich Brewing Co.
was announced today jointly by Chris
tian Heurich, jr., and a committee of
labor leaders headed by John Locher,
president of the Washington Central
Labor Union.
The brewery had been on labor's
unfair list" since August, 1888, al
though labor leaders admitted that
Heurich had paid higher than union
wages in some instances and operated
on a 5-day 40-hour week.
UnioniZation affects about 100 Of
the $50 employees of the brewery, ac-
cording to Heurich, who said the 9TH
ers already are members of unions,
although the plant has not been a
closed shop"
Evening star., 1934-12-06
Mexican Mail Order Divorces
Are Ruled Void in CAPITAL

San Juan del Rio County, Mexico,
although during the entire proceedings
both parties remained in the District.
Subsequently, Mrs. Mattingly mar
ried Thomas Austin Cover of 1902
North Capitol street. He later brought
suit through Attorney Jean M: Board
man in District Supreme Court to an
null his marriage on the ground that
the previous marriage between the
Mattinglys had never been legally dis
solved Among other defenses raised by
Mrs. Mattingly's lawyer were that Cover
had contributed part of the cost of
obtaining the divorce from Mattingly.
In spite of this. however. Justice Ad-
kins held the divorce utterly null and
entered a decree declaring Covers
marriage to Mrs. kattingly knnulled.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
13OWOMEN NAMED
TO LEGISLATURES
Women Voters League Sur.
vey DiscIoses Many Await
Roll Calls.

Although the number has declined
steadily since 1929, there will be 13C
women answering to roll calls in IS
State Legislatures this Winter. This
is revealed in survey by the National
League of Women Voters and was re-
ported to the board Of directors here
today.
OF this number, Connecticut has the
largest delegation with II, while many
are listed in New Hampshire. Vermont
and Washington. Large Legislatures
in these States bring the ratio OF
women down to per cent or less.
Eleven in Senates.
Eleven Of the 130 will occupy seats
in State Senates, the others In the
lower Houses. Politically, they are
divided as follows: Democrats, 81:
Republicans, So; Endorsed by both
parties, 3; non-partisan. Q; Socialist
!; party representation not reported, S.
The non-partisans are in Mime
sofa, the only State which elects a
Legislature on that basis. The single
Socialist is in Pennsylvania, while
three members in Washington ran
under the party label of Common
wealth Builders, an organization which
sponsored an End-Poverty in Wash
ington movement.
G. o. P. Strong in East.
Most of the Republican women are
found in New York and the New Eng
land States. most Of the Democrats
being west Of the Allegkanies, it was
reported.
Twenty-nine women served in State
Legislatures in 1921, the first year
women were eligible. This number in
creased steadily until 1929 when 149
were seated, the same number being
listed in 1880. Since that year, how
ever, a small decline has been noted
each year.
Evening star., 1934-12-06

Justice Jesse c. Adkins Of District
Supreme Court today handed down an
opinion holding that a Mexican
divorce obtained between persons who
were residents of the District Of Co.
lumbia and had not gone to Mexico
was absolutely null and void.
Although there had been several
previous cases in which the same re-
suit was indirectly established. today's
case was the first in which the issue
was squarely presented to the court.
The divorce in question was between
Louis r. Mattingly and Georgia ".
Foster Mattingly. They we're sepa-
rated in 1892 and obtained their
divorce through the Mexican Divorce
Bureau" The divorce was issuedAin
Evening star., 1934-12-06
LEGION BACKS PEAK
FOR BARNARD'S POST

Col. William L. Peak, superintendent
of Lorton Reformatory, has been in
dorsed by Vincent B. Costello Post
American Legion, for the position OF
superintendent of District Penal In
stitutions, to be made vacant with the
retirement Of Capt. M. M. Barnard.
A resolution indorsing Col. Peak
was adopted at q meeting Of the post
Tuesday and was forwarded to the
District Commissioners. 1t was the
consensus of post members that the
position should be filled by qualified
resident of the District of Columbia
and that Col. Peak, with his record
as former superintendent Of the Dis
trict Jail and now as head Of Lorton
Reformatory. should be given first
consideration.
Evening star., 1934-12-06
D. c. TEMPERANCE
CAMPAIGN SOUGHT
BY A. B. c. CHIEF
0ffutt Calls Y. M. G. A. TO
Lead Drive Against Ex.
cessive Drinking.
CABINET MEETING SOON
WILL PLAN CRUSADE
Increase in Drunkenness Here
Laid to "Habitual" Type,
Not Young People.

Describing temperance as anything
that avoids excess" George w. Offutt,
chairman of the Alcohol Beverage
Control Board, today called on the
Washington Young Mems Christian
Association to wage campaign for
temperance in the District.
After Offutt had delivered a per-
sonal appeal to the staff Of the Y. M.
c. A. this morning. Leonard W. De
Cast, general secretary of the associa-
ton, announced he will call a meet
ing Of the cabinet" Of the organiza-
ton to discuss plans for the cam
paign
Offutt told Y. M. C. A. officials
that although arrests for drunkenness
have increased In Washington since
repeal, he has noted that most Of the
persons being arrested now are of the
"habitual drunkard" type, whereas,
before repeal, the majority of prison.
ers were youths and persons of bet
ter class
Two Factors Given.
He attributed the increase in ar
rests to two factors. He said one of
these is that bootleg liquor is cheaper
now than during prohibition days
The second cause. he said, is that the
population of Washington has in
creased with the growth of recovery
agencies here.
There were approximately 1000
tvat@
February to September Of this year
than there were during a similar
period in 1893, Offutt declared.
The board chairman praised the
present system of liquor dispensation
in the District, declaring it has elm
mated "trickery and fraud" that pre-
vailed under the system before pro-
hibition days.
Economics Held Improved.
Repeal has improved economic con-
ditions in several lines of industry. he
said. with resultant employment ben
efits.
In advocating a temperance cam
paign by the Y. M. C. A.. Offutt point
ed out that the association, through
its character building work, is in a
strategic position to aid authorities
in "inculcating respect for law" among
the citizens.
He said the A. B. c. Board has
adopted a liberal policy in its admin
istration Of the new liquor regulations
Twelve licenses have been revoked SO
far, he declared, while 81 cases which
we're referred by the board to the cor
poration counsel have resulted in fines
for miscellaneous violations.