Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23
SCHOOLS, POLICE
AND TUBERCULOSIS
AID TO GET FUND
House Subcommittee Held
Giving Serious Consid-
GRAFTON to Hike. .
EASTERN HIGH SLATED
TO GET NEW ADDITION
Increase for Police Expected to Be
Used for Personnel to En-
force Traffic Rules.
BY JAMES E. CHM.

Pleas for additional funds for the
public schools, the Police Department
and for treatment of tuberculosis pa
tents, are being given serious consid-
Grafton by the House Subcommittee
on Appropriations, which is now
framing the 1887 District supply bill.
Bits of information dropped eau
| tiously by those In close touch with
the subcommittee activities, indicate
$500, 900 or more may be added to the
total of s43,10O,00G recommended by
| the Budget Bureau. The major por-
ton of the increase is expected to be
shared by the schools and the Police
Department, whose officials are said to
have made deep impression on the
subcommittee during recent hearings
of an urgent need for facilities that
cannot be met on Budget Bureau al
locations.
Addition for Eastern.
The additional school funds will be
marked chiefly for an addition to
Eastern High School, where over
crowding has become serious. Even
before the hearings ended, Represent
alive Blanton, Democrat, of Texas.
chairman of the subcommittee, prom
ised to fight for increased facilities at
| Eastern.
Additions to seven schools and a
vocational school for girls to replace
the old Dennison School, were the
only school building projects allowed
| in the budget estimates. considered
by the subcommittee. The additions
were as follows:
Four rooms to the Lafayette School,
completion of the second floor of the
Hardy School, eight rooms and COM
bination gymnasium and assembly hall
at the Truesdell School, eight rooms
and combined gymnasium and assem-
bly, hall at the Young School, 10 rooms
and gymnasium at the Paul Junior
High School, and eight rooms and
combination assembly hall at the
Grimke School.
Increases for Police.
| Increased funds for the Police De-
partment are expected to be reserved
for additions to the personnel-men
badly needed, according to Supt.
Ernest w. Brown, to enforce traffic
rules and regulations.
The schools and Police Department.
incidentally. received the most serious
blow in the dget-chopping process
at the Budget Bureau last Fall. The
school estimates were cut 1892, 900
under the total recommended by the
Commissioners, and the Police De-
partment was allowed about 100000
less than Maj Brown wanted to mod
ernize his equipment and strengthen
the force to cope with the ever-grow-
Ing traffic problem.
Maj Brown recommended funds for
13l additional policemen, but was all
lowed only four in the approved bud
get. The Budget Bureau, however.
did allow funds for several pieces of
new equipment, including an ar
mored car for use of the Detective
Bureau in pursuing bandits and other
armed criminals.
tuberculosis Fund Stressed.
Great stress was laid during the
subcommittee hearings on the neces-
sity for funds to keep the tuberculosis
Hospital at Fourteenth and Upshur
streets in operation after opening Of
the new adult tuberculosis sanitorium
at Glenn Dale, Md The subcommit-
tee is reported to favor such an ar
rangement and probably will pro-
vide funds for the hospitals continued
operation.
The fate of appeals for increased
funds for other health activities, how
ever. is still in doubt, in view Of the
clash between Chairman Blanton and
the District Medical Society. Blan-
ton himself has served notice he would
oppose any move to give the Health
Department more money than recon-
mended by the Budget Bureau. The
three other members of the subcom-
mittee have not indicated their posi-
ton.
One of the results of Blanton's
fight with the physicians is expected
to be legislative provision in the
bill to eliminate the part-time serv-
ices of doctors on the Health Depart
ment pay roll. Blanton has been
bitter in his condemnation of physi-
clans who are paid by the District and
at the same time engage in private
practice.
Early Completion Seen.
The subcommittee expects to COM
plete framing of the bill before the
end of the week and have it ready to
report to the House as soon as 1t dis.
poses of the agriculture appropria-
ton bill, the next supply bill on its
schedule for consideration. From
present indications, the District bill
probably will be reported March 2.
In the meantime the Government
printing Office will turn out the volurn.
inous report Of the hearings, which
subcommittee members have predicted
will contain some interesting" read
ing. It is known that nearly a hum
dred pages are taken up with dis
cussion of Communism, and its alleged
inroads into the public schools. Blan-
ton also has included in the record
the personal tax payments of some of
the Districts leading citizens to sup