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Evening star., 1935-11-03
EXHAUSTED FUNDS
MAY END 137 D. c.
SCHOOL PROJECTS
Board Asks w. P. A. to Sup.
ply Nursery and Adult
Groups Aid.
HAD BEEN RECEIVING
ABOUT $500 MONTHLY
1887 Pupils on Adult Education
Rolls, With 81 Teachers
Engaged in Work.

WaShington's 10 public school
nursery centers and 127 adult educa-
tion groups will cease to function
after tomorrow afternoon unless addi-
tional funds are provided by the
Works Progress Administration, it was
learned yesterday.
All available funds under the for.
mer Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
miniStration's school set-up here will
be exhausted with disbursement of
Mondays salaries for teachers. An
ticipating this situation, the Board
of Education has already asked the
w. P. A. to supply the necessary
money to continue the projects, but SO
far no action has been taken.
Since the organization of the adult
education classes and the nursery
centers approximately $500 monthly
has been supplied for the work. AS
much as $4,000 has been allowed, but
all this will end with the final dis.
bursements tomorrow.
Nursery Centers Supplied.
The 10 nursery centers have been
supplied with teachers and materials
for the training of INDECENT children
of pre-school age. Adult education
classes have been extended until 127
groups now exist in the public school
system with classes ranging from the
training of illiterates to vocational
and occupational instruction. A total
of 1927 pupils is on the rolls and
81 teachers are employed in the work.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintend-
ent. plans to present the situation to
the board at its next meeting We'd
nesday.
School authorities were disinclined
to believe the free school lunch pro-
gram would be halted as result OF
the relief funds situation. Commis-
sioner Allen, however, declared this
program would be among work prof.
ects financed out of relief grants
which must be halted November IS
unless some expedient can be devel-
oped meanwhile"
S2,000,000 for Relief.
IlC OIoI1 oNl NoA
ries S2,000,000 for relief and $4,000
Of this sum was made available for
purchase Of food or school lunches
This sum, however, District ofticiaH
explained, does not cover the cost OF
purchase of food for school lunches.
to the many scattered school buildings
where the lunches are served
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt last year
took an active interest in seeing that
the school lunch program was con-
tinued.
School authorities have little hope
of obtaining further help from the f..
E. r. A., but because of the hurried
effort to employ persons in work prCj-
ects, it is hoped the w. P. A. may he
able to continue the two groups of
projects that are employing teachers.
DR.. Ballou on wednesday also will
announce his recommendation for a
statistician for the board to fill the
vacancy created by the transfer of
Robert Anderson to an assistant prin-
cipalstip. He will ask the board to
select name for the new school build
ing that occupies the site of the old
John F. Cook School, destroyed some
time ago by fire.
Evening star., 1935-11-03
FARM POLICY IS HIT
BY GOV. LA Toilette
Resources Must Be Put to Work
to Create Buying Power,
Teachers Told.
BY the Associated Press,

by IIle ASSOCldtcQ FIcSSs
BUFFALO, N. Y, November a.
America has no surpluses that need
destroying, Gov. Philip F. La Toilette
of Wisconsin said at convention OF
teachers here today.
"You can call it a surplus when the
farmer can't sell his crops because
the people have no money to buy it,"
he said, "but it won't help to take any
or all of a crop and destroy it. Our
problem is not one of surpluses or of
overproduction. We must find ways
to restore the peoples purchasing
power. The only way to do that is to
put our human resources to work.
You can't create wealth except by
labor"
He urged three major detectives as
America worked her way out Of the
depression: "Old-age pensions, the
best possible education for the younger
people, and for the great mass Of able
bodied, bring back through co-opera-
tive Government action the old prin-
ciple of give every person chance to
earn his own living"
Evening star., 1935-11-03
Police to Go to Pistol Range;
BrO,Un viii Shoot With Rest

Brown believes it will take at least
two months to complete the program.
When the weather becomes too cold
to hold a pistol the officers will use
the departments indoor range, now
being reconditioned.
Maj. Brown ordered the intensive
shooting course in order to find out
exactly how many members Of his
force can shoot expertly and how
many need practice to sharpen their
eyes. Some of the ot.cers, he knows,
haven't fired a pistol in years.
A force of sharpshooters, according
to the superintendent, will have psy-
Geological effect on the criminal ele-
ment. He also contends that an Of
ficer of the law authorized to carry
a gun should certainly know how to
use 1t.
Maj. Brown plans to stimulate inter-
est In the course by arranging compe-
titions among the various precincts.
The outstanding marksmen will be
selected to form q team to engage in
matches with teams representing other
police departments.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

woodwork, an electrical wiring demon
samples of shoe repairing,
jars of vegetables and preserves and a
clay model of Ethiopia. There will
be pictures also of the Industrial
Home School herd. Director Street
was butted by a bull while taking the
pictures two weeks ago. He has recov-
cred from minor injuries received.
Jail Views to Be Shown.
Thomas M. Rives, head of the Dis
trict Jail, will present panel Of pic
lures illustrating unsatisfactory ply
clans facilities at the Jail, which he
hopes will be corrected.
Illustrations of cooking, sewing and
other home arts performed by in
mates Of the National Training School
for Girls will be exhibited by that
agency. Stereopticon views will be
offered to describe the programs of
the Child Welfare Division and a wide
variety of exhibits from the District
Training School for Predetermined il
lustrating activities there.
Evening star., 1935-11-03
Mrs. Roosevelt
Greets Byrd in
Rochester Cro,od
Gets Back on Trair, as
1t Starts Out, After
Surprising Explorer.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, November T.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today sur
prised hundreds of Rochesterians who
gathered at the New York Central Sta
tion to welcome Admiral Richard
Byrd, Antarctic explorer, to Rochester.
Admiral Byrd and Mrs. Roosevelt
did not know of each others pres
ence on the same train. Mrs. Roose-
welt, attracted by the large crowd on
the platform, spied the famous ex-
plorer in his Navy uniform.
As the train was about to pull out
Of the station, Mrs. Roosevelt quickly
got on and exchanged greetings with
Admiral Byrd.
The train began to move and Mrs.
Roosevelt made . dash for her car.
reaching its platform Just as 1t got
under way.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

On the Camp Simms pistol range q
group of 80 metropolitan police OFF,
GERS Tuesday morning will open the
departments Workmanship season.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent, yesterday signed the order di-
recting that every member OF the de-
DECENTRALIZATION clerks as well as
patrolmen-undergo an intensive Pc
Rod Of training on the range.
The major himself will lead the
vanguard. He thinks few hours on
the range might improve his marks
nanship, especially since he hasn't
shot anything except q f1recracker
in the three years he's headed the
department.
The 80 men selected to start the
firing we're ordered to meet at the
fifth precinct station. The same wag-
ons in which they force prisoners to
ride-patrol wagons-will transport
them to the range in Congress
Heights.
Thirty men will be required to go
on the range every day and shoot until
they can quality as Inarksn1en. Maj.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

A GEOGRAPHICALLY greater
~ National Capital, embracing
~ possibly such communities as
4 a Alexandria and Arlington
County in Virginia and Silver Spring,
Bethesda and Rockville in Maryland,
is envisioned by Frederic A. Delano,
prominent Washingtonian, who is
chairman of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission and vice
chairman of the National Resources
Committee.
Emphasizing that he speaks only
as a private citizen, Delano declared
yesterday that the row over the Chevy
Chase Circle bus situation accentuates
| the futility of attempting to confine
the metropolitan area of Washing
ton within arbitrary boundaries.
There are thousands Of people, he
said, who live in Arlington County
and Alexandria and in the nearby
Maryland communities, but who work
in Washington. In reality, he says,
this is all part of metropolitan WASH
ington and should be SO treated.
Delano declared that if this were
Chicago or Boston or New York, there
would be no hesitation in extending
the legal limits of the metropolitan
area.
Treaty Is Necessary.
Gall that would be necessary would
be for the residents outside to vote
to come in" said Delano. Here,
| hnuroyyar 10
between Maryland, Virginia and the
Federal Government. To work out the
problem, an equitable agreement will
have to be drawn up by all those in
terested"
There are two real obstacles to TAX
ing in part of Maryland and Virginia,
Deiano said, the vote and taxation.
! Inasmuch as residents of the Dis
trict do not have the right to vote,
difficulty arises. For its solution,
Delano pointed out, it might be pos
sible to place the citizens of the new
areas to be brought within the Dis
tr1ct Of Columbia in a different
status. Those now living in areas that
are today Maryland and Virginia
might continue to vote for those State
officials, he suggested.
The revenues that Virginia and
Maryland secure from these areas in
taxation form another hurdle.
Some equitable solution might be
worked out by figuring what percent
age of those taxes now secured are
spent in areas that might come within
an ,aae enlarged aaI DISTRICT of Columbia. De-
Circle Situation Cited.
II believe we ought to have greater
Washington and the situation at
Chevy Chase Circle proves it," he as
serted.
The real metropolitan Washington
has a population of 100000, declared
Delano, and eventually it will be in
excess of 100000.
To support his contention, pelano
cited the case Of New York City. en-
bracing the areas that are naturally
tributary to it. So should 1t be in
Washington. in Delano's opinion.
Delano declared that he would like
to see a larger commission governing
Washington, with a city manager
carrying out its edicts.
A Washington resident for 81 years.
Delano has had ample opportunity to
study the city and its problems. He
was a member of the Co-ordinating
Committee, composed of represent-
atlveS OF interested Federal and Dis
Evening star., 1935-11-03
PUBLIC WELFARE
EXHIBIT PLANNED
Work of Institutions to Be
DispIayed-Board Will
Meet on Tuesday.

The annual public meeting Of the
Board of Public Welfare, to be held
Tuesday at pm. in the auditorium
of the Commerce Department, will be
marked by an array of exhibits Of
the work of various institutions.
The exhibits will range from pho
tographs and rapidly changing stere-
optican slides to actual illustrations
of work and welfare activities. They
will be on view all day Tuesday and
Wednesday for the benefit of persons
who cannot attend the Tuesday eve
ming meeting.
Addresses at the public session will
be made by Chairman Frederick w.
McReynolds Of the Welfare Board; FL
wood Street, welfare director, and Ar
thur w. James, Virginia State COM
missioner Of public welfare. Music
will be furnished by the Army Band.
Of1cials of institutions under super
vision Of the board will be presented
to the gathering.
Students Especially Invited.
The public has been invited to at
tend. Special invitations have been
extended to social science students Of
universities, colleges, public, parochial
and other private schools.
Two pieces Of scientific medical ap-
paratus, the respirator and an elec-
trocardiograph, will be placed in the
exhibits by DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, su-
perintendent of Gallinger Hospital.
The respirator, or mechanical lung, is
used In many forms Of diseases where
there Is respiratory difficulties, such
as in infantile paralysis. The electro
cardiograph Is used for recording
heart efficiency and operates on the
principle Of making q photograph OF
the vibrations occurring in q quartz
string that oscillates In varying de-
grees on account Of the passage
through 1t Of q minute quantity Of
electricity that Is generated with each
beat Of the myocardium, or heart
muscle.
The Industrial Home for Colored
Children will present . varied display
including exhibits Of carpentry and
Evening star., 1935-11-03
.E.B.L. 0PENSHUNT
FOR MISSING BOY
Robert Cohen's Parents
Wait Word After U. S.
Sends lookout"

Anguished parents Of 17-year-old
Robert L. Cohen, Western High
School student who vanished under
mysterious circumstances five months
ago, waited hopefully at their Lyon
Park home last night for some re-
sponse to an unusual lookout" ap-
peal sent yesterday to police Of the
Nation by j. Edgar Hoover, head OF
the Justice Departments G-men.
Convinced of a possibility the boy
was taken for ride" in violation of
Federal kidnapping laws. Hoover pub
lished a photograph of the Cohen boy
and a detailed description of him in
the ''F. 3. I. Law Enforcement Bulle-
tin," more than 10000 copies of which
and agencies over the week end.
Forecast Early Return.
The bulletin, as an indication that
Robert had no intention of leaving
home fo- good when he departed for
school on May % last, pointed out he
ted a servant he would be back early
in the afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cohen said their son
had sizeable bank account In his own
name, but he did not draw out any
money before he disappeared.
He had with him about $50 which
he planned to deposit In his bank ac-
count. He never appeared at the
bank, however.
New clothing had arrived the day
prior to his departure, but he took
none Of it with him.
Left Friends at 4:3O.
Robert was seen last by a group of
fellow members of a Western High
School chess club, with whom he
played q game of chess after school.
The players all agree that Robert was
in good spirits when he left the school
building after the chess game about
4:30 pm.
II Is the theory Of those who have
investigated the case that Robert
''thumbed" q ride with some stranger
and met with foul play.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

trict Government agencies, with
representation provided for the
non-governmental population. Former
President Herbert Hoover appointed
him to the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and he has
served on it continuously since.
Washington occupies only about so
square miles Of the 100 square miles
originally set out by L'Enfant and
part of the city set apart on the Vir-
ginia side of the Potomac River-and
including Alexandria and Arlington
County-was given back to the Old
Dominion in 1846. Discussing this,
Delano recalled that the late William
Howard Taft told him, before he was
Chief Justice, that it was doubtful if
this act OF retroceSsion was strictly
legal. There is a question If, once
having ceded land to the United
States, it is legal to take it away
again.
Growth to Consider.
IF we are going to enlarge the
boundaries, we must provide for proper
growth in the naturally tributary ter
ritory," said Mr.. Delano.
Citing the growth of nearby Vir-
ginia as extraordinary" Delano said
that the communities near Washing
ton are growing by leaps and
bounds" This is evidenced by the
great amount of home construction
going forward now.
Rosslyn. Va, he said, might be "the
most beautiful town in the United
States" A 100000 bridge leads
across the Potomac River to it, with
the woods and Fort Myer, Va, be-
yond, he pointed out. The towers of
Georgetown University rise across the
river from it. Instead of taking its
opportunity, however. Rosslyn is a
harbor for billboards and factories
and oil concerns, Delano said.
Delano indicated that with an en-
larged National Capital, adequate en-
frances could be planned for and
made to harmonic with the beauty
of the city. He favored the retention
of Chevy Chase Circle and similar
spots in the expanded Washington
as places of charm and for their
historical values.
Evening star., 1935-11-03
GLENN DALE HOSPITAL
CONTRACT IS AWARDED
Walter Kidde Constructors, Inc,
Making $685., 800 Bid, to
Put Up Building,

The Commissioners yesterday award
ed contract for construction of the
main building Of the adult tubercu-
losis sanatorium at Glenn Dale, Nd,
to Walter Kidde Constructors. Inc,
which had submitted bid of $882, 800.
The building is to be completed on
or before next July /. the date set by
the Public Works Administration for
completion Of the entire development,
financed out Of a loan from the
p. w. A.
Award Of the building contract was
made possible by P. w. A. approval for
transfer Of 100000 from the loan Tor
the Districts sewage disposal plant.
This transfer was found necessary be-
cause the low bid on the hospital
proved to be about 100000 higher
than the estimate made a year ago.
Evening star., 1935-11-03
|EARLY START SEEN
ON DISTRICT BILLS
UNDER KING PLAN
Senate Committee to Meet
Prior to Beginning of
Session.
BROADENING OF POWERS
URGED FOR CITY HEADS
Auto Inspection Measure Is One
of Proposals Left From
Last Congress.
BY JAMES A. O'LEARY.

Local legislation will get off to an
early start in the Senate District Com
mittee again this Winter. as 1t did a
year ago. under plans being formu-
lated by the chairman, Senator King,
Democrat, of Utah.
Action OF the Commissioners a few
days ago In requesting all municipal
department heads to suggest by De-
cember / any legislative proposals
they think should be considered for
the coming session fits in with the
intention of Chairman King to hold
a preliminary meeting of the Senate
committee a week or two before Con-
gress convenes. The Senator is en-
route to the Philippines to witness
the ceremonies Of establishing the new
government in the islands this month,
but he expects to be back in the Cap
ital by December Is.
It will be several weeks before a
program of subject matters for new
legislation begins to take shape, but
there are several topics fairly certain
to come up for discussion at the first
meeting of the committee.
One is the often-debated question OF
trying to devise measure that would
broaden the general powers of the
Commissioners, to enable them to pass
on some of the less important munich
pal problems that now require enact
ment of separate bills by Congress.
Senator King has advocated such a
bill for number of years. but in the
past 1t has always been found difficult
to work out the details of the measure
Corporation Counsel Prettyman is al
ready at work on this as one Of the
questions to be considered at the next
session.
ANY other bills that department
heads suggest between now and De-
cember /, as result of the Commits
sioners' call, also will be turned over
to the corporation counsel's Office for
legal study before program of local
legislation Is formulated.
Among the measures left unfinished
at adjournment was the bill for semi
annual mechanical inspection Of mo-
tor vehicles, which passed the House
and will be pending before the Senate
Committee when 1t meets. Traffic
Director Van Duzer called attention
to this bill. while discussing unsafe
vehicles on the streets, in his annual
report last week.
By having group Of bills ready
for consideration when Congress met
last January, Senator King was able
to get them through the Senate dur
ing the first 10 days of the session
Among those bills was the measure
to tighten the anti-gambling laws,
which was left awaiting action in q
House subcommittee at the adjourn
ment two months ago. These bills
that were not completed at the last
session, however, retain their priv
ileged status at the coming session.
Evening star., 1935-11-03
Christmas Rush Postal Jobs !.
VIII Go to Needy Applicants

Anticipating the heaviest Christmas
mail in history here, Postmaster Will
liam M. Mooney said yesterday extra
employment will be afforded cor
respondingly, but he emphasized that
In accordance with custom and de-
partmental instructions 1t will be lin
tied to needy persons.
Mooney was uncertain how many
men would be added. Last year 5000
extras were hired. He already has be-
tween 5000 and 5000 applications and
they are coming in at the rate Of so
to Is daily, which means that the
presumptive need Is about taken care
Of. Usually welfare and veteran Or
ganisations indorse the applicants SO
that officials may be certain that the
work Is. going where the income Is
Evening star., 1935-11-03

needed. Clerks, carriers and jumpers
comprise the bulk Of those to be taken
on and because of the rigorous de-
mands 1t Is not possible to employ
women.
The workers are brought in about
December 10, If the advance mail is
running heavily enough by that time,
and the period Of employment extends
generally to Christmas eve. The rate
Of pay is so cents an hour. j!s
The procedure here is the same as
over the remainder of the country.
The increase in Government activity
Is the basis for MONEYS expectations
of heavy Christmas mail, and he ne
peated q previous request that early
mailing be the order whenever pos
sible, in order to distribute the load and
facilitate the movement.
Evening star., 1935-11-03
0akton All Club Officers.

OAKTON, Va, November 2 (Spe-
ciaD Officers of the recently reor-
ganized Oakton School All Club have
been elected for the year as follows:
Betty Adams, president; Bertha Moser,
vice president; Margaret Englehart,
secretary; Dorothy Denison, treasurer:
Maxine Slaughter, song and cheer
leader, and Edna Taylor, reporter.
Evening star., 1935-11-03
2 SENTENCED FOR OPIUM
American Seamen Lose Appeal to
High Court in France.

DOUAI, France, November P)-
Two American seamen were sentenced
to prison today for attempting to
smuggle opium into France.
Joseph Ryan and Thomas Herman,
members of the crew Of the American
freighter Liberty, were given sentences
of one year and 18 months, respec-
lively, when the Court of Appeals re-
jected an appeal against the convic-
ton of the lower court.
They were arrested July 80 when
found with four valises containing
opium.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

FdIlaIud IOOk up TcSlucuCe az
the Washington Zoo yesterday.
They were brought here in suit
case by mild-looking, bespectacled
little man who handled his cargo Of
pain and death as If 1t was a collec-
ton of angleworms.
The collector is Arthur M. Green
hall of New York and the jungles of
Central America, who makes busi-
ness of catching odd creatures and
selling them to ZOOS. He has just re-
turned from productive hunt in
Panama and Costa Rica. Many of his
most valuable captures were killed,
however. when hurricane tossed his
home-bound ship, bashing the crea-
lures in their pens and cages.
Bats From Costa Rica.
Prizes of yesterdays acquisitions, ac-
cording to DR.. William Mann, Zoo di-
rector. are four vampire bats, caught
by Greenhall in an abandoned cop
per mine near Cartago, Costa Rica.
They are razor-toothed creatures that
squeak and hop around their cage
on long, furry legs. They conjure
visions of their eerie cave, crawling
with scorpions and giant reaches.
The bats fare only on blood, human
and animal. DR.. Mann promises they
will receive none of the former variety
here. They will be fed defibrinated
beef blood-blood from which the clot-
ting substance has been removed.
The vampires bite, unless it trans
mits paralytic rabies or other lethal
disease, is not fatal to humans, but
causes intense pain. Their teeth are
so shaped that they scoop out the skin
of victims. Contrary to legend, they
do not suck blood, but lap it after
they have slashed a wound Central
American natives call them "the sur
Evening star., 1935-11-03
RESURFACING TO BEGIN
ON TWELFTH STREET
Thoroughfare Is Ordered Closed
Month Beginning Tomorrow
to Permit Work.

Twelfth street between Pennsyl-
vania and Constitution avenues will
be closed for month beginning to-
morrow, while the roadway is being
resurfaced.
The Commissioners recently award
ed the contract for the work, the cost
of which will be paid out of Federal
grants to the District for highway i'm
provementS.
Closing of the street will necessi-
tate detours for hundreds of motor
lists, who have been using this con-
nection between the two avenues, par
ticularly during rush hours.