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Considering Liquor Applications
Unfair Burden on School Board.

4 CCORDING to press reports
the meeting of the Board of
Education on Tuesday last was
spent mostly in considering ap-
plications for the granting of liquor
licenses at locations near school
buildings. 1t has been the policy
of the board to be represented by
a committee before the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board when ap-
plications were under consideration
for such locations. The board has
always been careful in its endeavor
to safeguard the school surround
ings from such establishments.
The burden of the board has been
increased through the repeal of
the 400-foot rule of the regula-
tions. Under the present plan
each application for the granting
Of a license near school is re-
ferred to the School Board for
action and advice to the A. B. C.
Board.
The civic groups which are more
particularly interested in our public
school system are not at all pleased
with the placing of this additional
burden upon this citizen board.
which serves without compensation.
There is a feeling that all of the
time which these citizens are able
to give in service as members of
that important body should be de-
voted to the policies and super
vision of our public school system.
The alcoholic beverage control
act places the control of the alco-
holic beverage traffic under the
District Commissioners and the
A. B. c. Board. The Commission
ers are clothed by the act with
very broad powers in the making
of the regulations, which may in
clude areas in which the sale of
alcoholic beverages may be pro-
hibited.
Under the liquor law which
prevailed in the District prior
to the enactment of the Shep-
pard prohibition act the granting
of license for any of the purposes
specified in the act, with few
minor exceptions, was prohibited
from being granted within 400 feet
of public school, private school,
college or house of religious wor-
ship. This was positive provision
beyond the discretion of the excise
board, and automatically gave pro-
lection to the educational and
religious institutions against in
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Southeast Council Schedules
I4-POint Program for Year

Fourteen projects will be sought by
the Southeast Council of Citizens
Associations during the season lust
opening.
Ihe program, announced bv Ernest
J. Read, president of the Congress
Heights Citizens Association. is con-
cerned principally with the need for
a new Pennsylvania avenue bridge
over the Anacostia River Reed cited
the recent load thrown upon the old
bridge by the closing of the Eleventh
Street Bridge as an illustration of the
inadequacy of the present structure.
The projects listed in the program
will be urged by all 10 member asso-
Citations of the Southeast Council
They were presented Friday by Read
at the budget hearings before the
Commissioners.
The l4-point program follows:
Improving of Nichols avenue south
east from the 5000 block to Magazine
road.
Completion of the Anacostia Junior
Senior High School with erection of
seven rooms on the third floor as
originally planned.
Improving of Alabama avenue
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southeast from Nichols avenue south
east to Naylor road.
Construction Of additional section
Of the Oxen Run interceptor.
Splitting of eleventh police precinct
into two precincts with one in Ana
costa and the other in Bennings.
Appropriation for construction. of
branch of Public Library in Anacostia
Development of park areas in south
east and beautifying of center park
way en- Pennsylvania avenue SOUTH
east from Second street to Seven
teenth street.
Removal of garbage transfer sta
ton from southeast section of city.
Widening of Independence avenue
from Second street southeast to
Fourth street southwest.
Extension of Virginia avenue SOUTH
east into a boulevard along the Ana
costa River.
Erection Of waiting and comfort
station at Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Improvement of Commodore Barney
Circle to conform with bridge ap-
proach.
Restoration Of lights on Ridge road
from Burns street to Anacostia road.
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Southwest Postponement.

Because Yom Kippur eve occurs
this Wednesday, the meeting night
OF the Southwest Citizens Associa-
ton, the organization will not meet
until the following Wednesday. Sep
tember %, Harry S. Wender, secretary,
announced yesterday. Next month the
association may shift its meeting date
from the customary third Wednesday
OF the month, because other organ
izations meeting on the same night
have tended to cut the attendance
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NE HUNDRED AND TWENTY

y NE HUNDRED AND TWENTY =
4 EIGHT District bills await
\ the consideration of House
~ and Senate District Commit
tees upon the reconvening of Congress
in January, according to final legis-
lative calendar prepared last week by
Mrs. Isabel Horton, clerk of the House
District Committee.
All of them were introduced during
the last session of Congress, but es-
capped action for one reason or an
other. Altogether, l55 District bills
were introduced in both House and
Senate, and only % we're enacted
into law. Three of those passed by the
House and Senate were vetoed by
President Roosevelt.
Following is the status of the Dis
trict~ legislative calendar:
Principal Bills Passed.
Repeal of red rider to 1895 appro-
prlation act public Law No. .lI9).
Revising District marriage law pub
lie Law No. 1859.
Prevention of blindness in infants
Public Law No. So.
Authorizing the Federal Government
to furnish steam to the new Police
Court Building public Law No So.
Regulating sale of potatoes Public
Law No. 1861
Raising the amount under which
petit larceny is charged public Law
No. 268).
Prohibiting use of slugs in telephone
coin boxes public Law No. 3o5).
Providing for licensing of real estate
brokers Public Law No. 1867.
Providing new taxes to offset cur
rent budget deficit Public Law No
314).
Giving courts rather than Commits
sioners authority to review decisions
Of Alcohol Beverage Control Board
Public Law No. 1922
Permitting bowling alleys to oper
on Sunday Public Resolution No. 25)
Amending automobile liability Law
public Law No. 35D.
Tightening the adoption law Public
Law No. 300
Bills Vetoed
Bills vetoed we're those changing
the name of Police Court to City Court
q. 2sO9), naming the new streets in
the Mall III. J. IT'D and enlarginp
Washington Airport III. R. 7985).
Awaiting HauSa Aot;o,x
Bills that have passed the Senate
and awaiting House action follow:
Tightening gambling laws IS. 7lD
Regulating sale of drugs IS. 1920.
Establishing small claims cour,
IS 1880.
Providing for semi-annual inspec-
ton of motor vehicles IS. 2le4.
Strengthening first-degree murder
law IS. 2892).
Awaiting Senate Action.
Bills that have passed the Hous,
and awaiting Senate action:
Changing the status of detective.
IN Police Department III r. 2898).
Increasing the penalty for felony
convictions III r. 4188).
Erecting new building for recorder
of deeds (H r. 4217.
Giving Public Utilities Commission
authority to enforce its orders III. r
1909.
Regulating beauty parlors (H. r
6869).
Requiring taxicabs to carry liability
insurance III r. 7094).
Bills in Conference.
Modernizing Juvenile Court pro.
cedure III. r. 4276)
Bills Laid on Table.
Legalizins horse racing (H. r
3o22).
Prohibiting establishment Of 80
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Status of d. C.. Legislation
Twenty-eight Of 155 Local Measures Enacted
by Past Session Of Congress; Three Are
Vetoed BY President

called nuisance industries Oh. r.
7351).
Requiring women to serve on iuries
(H. r. 6177).
Bills defeated on floor of House:
Limiting the number Of taxicabs
(H. r. 66s7.
Principal bills pending before House
committee:
Restore prohibition to the District
(H. r. 1897.
Amend workmens compensation act
(H R. 15o9).
Providing retirement pensions for
judges of the minor courts III. r.
2732).
Authorizing construction of new
central Public Library building Oh. r.
3410).
Providing for abolition of capital
punishment III. r. 3789).
Authorizing sabbatical leave for
school teachers Oh. r. 3911).
Providing for election of delegates
to national political conventions
(H. R. 4108).
Regulating hours of employment
for women (H. r. 4409).
Prohibiting Government employees
from operating taxicabs III. r. 4474)
Authorizing retirement of police
men and firemen after Is years OF
service (H. r. $685..
Providing for reorganization of
Board of Public Welfare III. R. 6742)
Fixing maximum street car and bus
fares at cents (H. r. 6862).
Establishing 5-day, 60-hour week in
fire department III. r. 7710).
Revising small loan law CH. r
8l14.
Authorizing Commissioners to con-
duct advisory referenda III. r. 8l46)
Changing banking laws III. R. 1885,
Evening star., 1937-09-12
CITIZENS TO FORM
SUFFRAGE GROUP
New Organization to Meet
Friday Night to Seek Voice
in D. c. Affairs.

An organization to be known as the
District of Columbia Suffrage Asso-
ciation will be formed at a me ting to
be held next Friday in the board room
of the District Building, it was an
nounced yesterday by Wilbur S. Finch,
temporary chairman of the Organizing
Committee
To have as its ultimate object the
complete enfranchisement of District
residents, the association will devote
its first efforts to passage by Congress
of an act by which the people will be
given voice in local affairs, accord
ing 10 Finch, who was named at a
meeting last July TO head the Organ
izing Committee.
Seek to Show Advantage.
What we want to do is establish a
ballot box in the District of Colum-
oia, Finch said, "and prove to Con-
gress it is both to their advantage as
well as the advantage of the local resi-
dents"
Pointing out the date for the COM
ing meeting is the 150th anniversary
|of the signing OF the Constitution,
Finch declared the date was chosen
because of its historical significance. /"
Cooperation Promised
Finch said the new organization was
not intended Ito oppose, supplant or
parallel any other movement for suf-
frage and it will always be ready to
cooperate with other organizations of
this type"
Others of the Organizing Commit
tee, all members of various civic as
sociations in the city, are: Kenneth P.
Armstrong, David Babp. William NICK
Clayton, Earl W. Cooper. William A.
Maio, William H Mondell, Louis /.
Obergh. Burd w. Payne, Arthur C.
Smith, Mrs. Clara Wright Smith, Harry
N. Stull Mrs. Margaret H Worrell and
Mrs. Margaret L. Krenek.
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Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
d. c. Finance and Fiscal Equity Major Problem.
School Board and Liquor Licenses-Mont-
gomery Federation TO Meet.

vssion of their immediate vicinity
by liquor selling establishments.
. There is strong feeling that
a simple solution of the present
problem could be found by the
Commissioners in the promulgation
of a prohibitory regulation which
would surround all Of our schools
with the proper protection, with
out increasing the burden of the
Board of Education.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Redskin Coach to Talk.

The Junior Boards weekly luncheon
at the Lee House next Thursday at
1890 pm. will be addressed by Ray
Flaherty. coach of the Washington
Redskins professional foot ball team.
Flaherty is expected to discuss his
teams prospects this Fall.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Montgomery Civic Federation
Resumes Meetings at Bethesda.

TOMORROW evening in the
Bethesda Elementary School
Building the Montgomery Coun-
ty Civic Federation will hold its
first meeting after the Summer
recess. Its calendar of business.
covering five pages, includes a
number of items, some of which
carry 1886 dates.
Submitted to the delegates with
the official calendar is pro-
posed report to the Federation by
its Committee on Internal County
Improvement. This is a very in
formative document of eight pages
which is expected to form a basis
for considerable constructive action
during the coming season.
The Federation of Citizens As
sociations of the District of Colum-
bia will hold its first meeting Sat-
urday evening, October 2.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Opponents Of Abattoir Hopeful
Decline to Admit Defeat.

Opponents of Abattoir Hopeful
Decline to Admit Defeat.
T OCAL and Public Works Admin
istration officials, in substan-
tial agreement as to the effect of
the operations of the abattoir
on the sewage treatment plant
and the condition of the river,
are still hopeful of being able
to block its operation. The threat
Of this slaughter house is
most important and immediate civic
problem, deserving of energetic
action on the part of the various
civic organizations. Many of these
organizations are on record as
opposing the operation of this
plant and among the leaders of
this opposition there has been ex-
pressed a desire that their previous
action be reiterated and reinforced.
just now the public officials and
the press, who have been carrying
the brunt of the fight against the
oidASiALCl llOiSC, al III llttu Vi
militant support of organized civic
Washington for their encourage
ment. Unquestionably they will be
strengthened in their efforts If they
are made to understand that they
have the backing of the District
with practical unanimity.
New health regulations may be
required to meet the situation. and
this also is something which may
be helped greatly through a gen.
eral community backing. The plan
is to continue opposition to this
plant to the utmost and when
Congress convenes to urge the pas
sage of the pending Collins bill,
which will guard the District
against the recurrence of such a
situation.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
HlLLCREST HEAD ASKS
CIVIC COOPERATION
Requests for Inclusions in Budget
Estimates Prepared at Execu-
tive Committee Meetings.

Calling upon the rank and file of
the citizenry to present united front
tnls year. Charles F. Foster. president
OF Hillcrest Citizens Association. yes-
teroay announced his group would hold
tne first meeting Of the Fall tomorrow
night at the East Washington Heights
Baptist Church.
Foster. in his statement urging all
members to attend. said that everv
committee will be expected to make a
report Of work undertaken during the
Summer months.
AT an executive meeting held Thurs
Gay night with the chairmen of the
committees, a brief was drawn IN
which was presented by Foster at hear
ings held yesterday on the 1889 budget
estimates. Various projects which the
association will foster during the COM
ing nine months were recommended
Tor action by tlr, Districts department
heads
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Business Men to Meet.

The regular monthly meeting OF
the Southeast Business Mems Asso-
citation will be held in the Offices of
the president, Clarahce F. Donohoe,
3l4 Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
tomorrow at pm.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Planes Sell at Exposition.

Small French sport planes. carrying
two and priced at 5000, are being Of
fered to private purchasers at the
Paris Exposition, with a ceiling of
$4,000 feet and cruising speed OF
los miles per hour.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
CHAIRMEN NAMED
Bladensburg's President Thomas
Announces Appointments.

Announces Appolntments.
Chairmen for seven committees of
the Bladensburg Citizens Associae y
ton were announced yesterday by
President William P Thomas, jr.
Those serving are:
w. F.. Ryan, legislation; Mrs. r.
Gallagher. schools; j. d. Wolf, streets,
w. S. Ahlberg, public utilities Milton
Hicks, fire, police and mails Mrs. J.
Robertson. sewers and water, and
F. j. Fabrizio, health and sanitation.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

The Public Utilities Commission
held a one-day hearing on the gas
rates and continued the existing
rates for a period Of so days. dur
ing which time study will be
made by the commissions experts
of the various data submitted by
the gas company. Under the slid
ing scale plan which was introduced
last year for the gas company the
figures indicate the amount of the
earnings in excess of the 6l2 per
cent rate is so small as to promise
practically nothing in the way of a
reduced rate to consumers. There
is some question as to whether some
expenditures by the gas company
are properly deductible, and, il
these are ruled out by the commits
sion, it might result in a slightly
increased amount available for rate
reduction.
The hearing was a very tame af
fair, most of those present being
representatives of the gas company.
The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations, labor organization and
an organization of Federal employees
were the only citizen groups being
officially represented.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
BY JESSE c. SUTER.

~ IVIC affairs for the Fall and
Winter season really got
under way on Friday and
Saturday at the hearing by
the Commissioners on the 1889
District budget Spokesman for
the several civic groups. both neigh
borhood and District-wide, then
appeared and urged inclusion in
the forthcoming budget of items in
which they were particularly in
terested.
Naturally, there cropped out a
discussion of the ways and means
of meeting the Districts financial
needs, more especially the substan-
tial amounts required for capital
expenditures. The equitable share
of the Federal Government toward
the operation and development. of
the National Capital and the ques-
ton of borrowing from the Federal
Government to carry forward some
of the long overdue capital projects
we're also included in the discus
sions.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

The Minimum Wage Board is
busily engaged in its studies and
is now prepared to confer with
committee representing the public,
employers and employees. This joint
committee of nine will meet next
Thursday evening for a conference
with the board.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

Some of the citizens associations
are resuming meetings and it is
expected that the various organ
izations of the voteless and pnrep-
resented District of Columbia will
all be actively functioning by the
middle of October.
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The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
5 CHINESE ARMIES CUT LOOSE JAPS
 DANGER WHITES
(By The Associated Press

UNDATED, July 29, The liv- eS of Tientsins and many Ameri- cans, were imperilled by literal death struggle of the Japanese army in it's desperate effort to route the Chinese forces, in an attack that threatened to drive it from Tientsin.
 They loosed a devastating aer- ial bombardment which has inn perilled all residents of the city.
 Japanese officers oaid thoy "sero forced to ignore earlier assur- ances that they would not eX- pose the city's foreign residents to peril.
 Wave upon wave of bombing squadrons set the principal build ings afire, as bombs rained down on the densely populated Chinese quarter.
 Both there and at Peiping, for eigners swarmed to embassy com pounds for protection.
 Three Chinese armies attacked together suddenly, after two arm ies had suddenly and mysterious lp withdrew from Peiping.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
Japs Loose Aerial Bombardment Tientsin PeiEEng
Russian filled Heading Force
 Hadtid Defense
fByThe Assocls.ed PreSs)

fByThe Associated Press)
 HEnoAYE, Spain, July 29, - Insurgnts said today that Rus sian commander" of an interna- tional brigade, had been killed defending Madrid.
 Insu gents off the west side of Madri said a new offensive ag- ainst the government-held San lander. was imminent.
 General Franco's eastern army was reported to have been driven across the Teruel-Guenca river, with loyalists protecting the Val -Madrjd lifeline, St the Mad rid battle lapsed 10 a deathlike lull
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
BUFFALO CROCERS TO-
 RECEIVE FOOD STUFFS|
fBv The Associated PressI


 BUFFALO. July 20, - Whole sale food merchants opened their warehouses here in defiance of a thousand striking delivery truck drivers, but union men seeking a closed shop and increased wages, frightened their picket lines and stopped food movements before the dwindling stocks in retail stores could be replenished last night.
 AS surprise this morning, the retail grocers decided to capitu- late to union demands.
 Grocers may now fill the shelves in their empty stores as a thousand truck drivers ended their eight day strike, and return ed to work at higher wages and closed shops. The butchers strike however continues.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
T. E. Wilson of
 Alaska s. s. Co.
 Retires Aug. lst
TWoSoME E..
(By The Associated Pcess)


 SEATTLE, July 29. Thomas B. Wilson, vice president and General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Company, announced his retirement effective August lst. He has been recovering from a recent illness.
 MT. Wilson said he would con- tinue as vice president on leave of absence. He plans to recuper- ate at his ranch at Carmel, Calif- ornia.
 Charles Booking of New York, associated with the Kennecott Copper Corporation will succeed Wilson as general manager, it was made known.
 During the last maritime strike Wilson was a member of the coast committee of operators, re- presenting the Pacific Northwest.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
War Department
 OK's Funds Nome
(Bv The Associated Press

(By The Associated oress)
 WASHINGTON, D. C., July % The War Department announc- ed that Secretary of War Harry Woodring had approved Of twen ty five million, nine hundred and fifty one thousand dollars annual maintenance allotments for sev- eral hundred rivers and harbor projects. No new ones were in- cluded in the program.
 The Nome harbor IS to receive thirteen thousand dollars.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
GOES SIX DAYS WITHOUT FOOD
 ON AN OVERLAND TRIP

After walking more than three hundred miles, being lost in a fog at the head waters of the Good Hope River, going for six days without food and nearly drowning in the Arctic Ocean, Gene Conner was brought to Nome late yesterday by plane from Shismaref, where he had been waiting since July 18th for boat to pick him up.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29

JUNEAU, July 29, - Mrs. Earl Watkins, A, a resident of Jun eau for twenty years, died sudd- enly yesterday at the hospital following an undisclosed illness.
 Her husband, the operator of the Thane power plant for the Alaska Juneau mine, survives her.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29

He left Deering July 5th in tending to walk across country to Taylor Creek in the Kougarok section. Approaching the divide which separates the north and south sides of Seward Peninsula he became confused when fog set in, and without compass, found it almost impossible to tell where he was.
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The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29

Spectacles have been invented for automobile drivers having the upper portions made of an opa- que plastic material that shields the eyes from approaching head lights without interfering with driving.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
Hotels in Frisco Resume Normal
 Service Future
(By The AsSocia ted PreSs)


 SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, - The largest hotels in the city, closed by the three-months' strike will open today, and it is believ- ed, will be back on normal opera ton by the week end, as strikers agreed to arbitration of their higher wages, forty hour week, and closed shop demands.
 Nineteen of the city's best ho- tels were affected by the strike.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29
Want To Up Taxes
(Rv The Assnclated Pressl

fBv The Associated Pressl
 WASHINGTON, D. C., July % - Members Of he senate and house tax committee are consid- ering boosting the tax and sur taxes on personal holding com panies, as high as seventy per cent. to restrict alleged use of tax-avoiding purposes, at pres ent which vary from eight to for ty eight percent.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-07-29

Chinese shore forces shelled Japanese destroyers which had shelled Tangku, Tientsin's water port.
 Last available information said the Japanese were rushing rein forcement to China, as they re- cognized the concerted action of Chinese forces. as real threat.