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Evening star., 1938-09-29
RELIEF CHARGES
WILL Be PROBED
Advisory Committee Meets
on Allegation 'Phony'
Statistics Used.

The three members of the Citizens
Advisory Committee on the local re-
lief survey were scheduled to meet
today to investigate charges and de-
mails that the Public Assistance Divi-
sion Of the Board Of Public Welfare
has made use Of "phoney" statistics.
The session was called yesterday by
Chairman Ringgold Hart after a new
fiare-up in the controversy between
welfare oficials and Burdette G.
Lewis, who is directing the relief in
quiry.
The other members of the Advisory
Committee are William L. Beale, bank
er. and DR.. Robert E. Moran.
Mr.. Hart said today he felt that no
good would result from a fight between
the investigator and the persons being
investigated prior to the release Of the
report, and added that his committee
is interested in developing the facts
impartially and fairly to all con-
cerned, "let the chips fall where they
may"
Mr.. Lewis latest statement yester-
day said that relief officials either were
INDUCING in "habitual exaggeration" or
were intellectually dishonest"
To this Welfare Director Elwood
Street replied: II didn't know that
any of us had been intellectually dis
honest-certainly I have not been
Willingly dishonest II Mr.. Lewis
thinks I have-he is entitled to his
own opinion"
Evening star., 1938-09-29
BAND CONCERT

By the United States Soldiers Home
Band In the Soldiers Home bandstand
At O'Clock this evening. John s. M.
zimmerman, conducting; Anton
Po4ntner, assistant.
Program.
March. ~. S. 1nfantry-The Kings
OF the Highway
Gen. Burt, q. s. A. (retired)
Overture, "The wreckers,"
Ethel smyth
Suite romantic, "1taliana" -Thurban
!. In Sunny San Marino."
T.. "A Venetian Love song"
). The Chimes of st. Peters in
Rome"
Excerpts from musical comedy.
"Mercenary Mary" Ger,S,win
Popular numbers:
Sleepy Time Girl Whiting
Some Day Well Meet Again"
Van Loan
Chopin
Finale, Spirit of the Blue Flame"
Sordillo
THE Star spansled Banner"
Evening star., 1938-09-29
DECIDE
LAND PURCHASES
Way Is Cleared for Joint
Session With Fine Arts
Commission.

Disposing of a number of land pur-
chase numbers at the opening session
of a two-day meeting. the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion cleared the way for a joint ses-
sion with the Fine Arts Commission
this afternoon.
Most of the land purchase items,
submitted by Norman c. Brown, the
commissions land purchase officer,
were concerned with small additions
to existing District and Federal prop
erty for the acquisition of new play
ground sites. No details will be an
nounced until the purchases are COM
pleted.
Later in the opening session the
commissions staff was to present
1910 land-purchase program for park
and other developments. This pro-
gram. as approved by the commission,
will be taken up with the Budget
Bureau in connection with the prepa-
ration of estimates for the coming
fiscal year.
FlanS 1Or new construction at Gal
linger Hospital and number OF new
school projects also are being consid-
cred by the commission.
This afternoon the Commission of
Fine Arts is to meet jointly with the
Park and Planning Group to consider
number Of important building prof.
ects, among them final plans for the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial and prog
ress plans for the War Department
and Social Security Board Buildings.
Relocation of the historic Bulfinch
gatehouse, which now stands well
below the existing grade at Seven
teenth street and Constitution avenue
NV, also is being considered.
The two commissions are expected
this afternoon to clear the way for
immediate construction of the contro-
versial Jefferson Memorial by deter
mining the exact location of the site
between the Tidal Basin and Four
teenth street S.W.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

her work with "The Gray Ladies' :"
The story, 80 This Is Christmas -
which tells of a blind boy in a vet
erans' hospital who regained his sight,
was suggested by the real life story
of soldier she met as a volunteer
worker. Miss Bailey explained the
soldier had despaired of regaining his
sight, and it had been her privilege
to give him the doctors message that
he would see again.
Roll call headquarters announced a
special Red Cross program would be
presented at Loew's Capitol Theater
at BIS pm tomorrow A tableau and
overture dedicated to the Red Cross,
and staged by Gene Ford and Phil
Lampkin, will be shown at the evening
performance. and four times daily
during the next week The tableau
will be featured as a prologue to the
regular stage show. Leaders of the
roll call will be guests Of the theater
at the first performance.
An enrolment of 1851 for the
third day of the drive was an
nounced by roll call headquarters
Omcials said this figure exceeded the
enrolment for the same period last
year. Additional firms announcing
100 per cent enrollments include F.
B. Crovo Co., Robert I. Anderson Co.,
Julius b. Gay. A. d. Loefiler Co.,
A. D. Jordon, Louis B. Bowdler and
Paul Honor. Meanwhile the trafic
department Of the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co. announced That
1853 persons had enrolled by the Sec
ond day of the drive this year, as
compared with 155 enrollments for
the second day of 1897.
P. Bateman Ennis was to address the
Cosmos Club luncheon at the Carlton
Hotel at 1890 pm. today, at which q
Red Cross skit also was to be pre-
sented by the Civic Theater players,
directed by Mrs Frederick Warren.
Gordon Rule spoke to the boys of the
Bituminous Coal Commission at 10
am today, and employees of the
Hahn Shoe Co. heard a STAN speaker
at 9 am. Station WMAL will broad
cast a Red Cross skit, Red Crossing
the Bar" at 8:l5 pm. tonight.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
But Believes Gravelly Point Will Not
BE Satisfactory IS Airport.

But Believes Gravelly Point Will Not
Be Satisfactory As Airport.
Although he believes Gravelly Point
twill prove unsatisfactory" as solu-
ton of Washington's airport problem,
Chairman King of the Senate District
Committee said today he will not in
terpose objections to the plans now
being made by several Federal agen-
cies to proceed with its development.
The Utah Senator who was chair
man of the special congressional COM
mission that recommended the Camp
Springs site near the road to Southern
Maryland. said the experts of that
commission decided a larger area, re-
moved from fog conditions along the
river, would be needed to meet future
landing-f1eld requirements.
The Senator also reiterated, how
ever, that he has washed his hands"
of the Camp Springs Airport Bill, in
80 far as taking the initiative to revive
1t Is concerned. The bill failed to re-
ceive House action in the last two
sessions of Congress after passing the
Senate.
Meanwhile. Senator King indicated
he still is undecided whether to give
up the Craftsmanship of the District
Committee in the new Congress. He
made known yesterday he is seriously
considering stepping aside as District
chairman because of the pressure of
his other work The Senator gave
some thought to relinquishing the
chairmanship at the opening of the
last Congress two years ago.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
TRUSCOTT, ACE
INVESTIGATOR, TO
Be TRANSFERRED
Wilson Murder Case Solver
Will Be Sent to Eleventh
Precinct.
POLICE OFFICER HEADS
LIST FOR PROMOTION
Will Be Given Training Not
Otherwise Available at
Headquarters.

1t. Floyd Truscott, head Of the
special investigating squad Of the
Metropolitan Police Department. which
has been given credit for solving a
number Of sensational cases in the
past few years. will be transferred to
No. ii precinct station. according to
an announcement today by Maj
Ernest w. Brown. superintendent.
The transfer of 1t. Truscott will be-
come effective Saturday, Maj. Brown
said today. Maj Brown said 1t. Trus-
colt. who Is at the head Of the list for
promotion to the rank of captain,
would receive necessary training not
otherwise available at headquarters
He asserted that 1t. Truscott probably
would be transferred to other pre-
cincts following a period Of training at
No IL.
1t. Truscott received the commenda-
ton OF Maj. Brown in June, 1886. for
his part in the solving Of the murder
OF Allen B. Wilson, newspaper route
agent. Wilson was killed in Takoma
Park, Md. in October. 1884, when he
was mistaken for Edward Mickey"
Mcdonald. local gambler, in front of
the latter's home.
Worked on Case . Year.
The special investigating squad.
composed Of 1t. Truscott, 1t. John
Evening star., 1938-09-29
FISHING IN PARK
MAY Be REALIZED
Finnan's Dream of Stocking
Rock Creek May Come
True With De.poI|ution.

The prospective de-pollution of Rock
Creek under $4,618,530 P. w. A..
grant will enable c. Marshall Finnan,
superintendent OF National Capital
Parks, to fulfill a dream he has had
since he took office-to stock the creek
with game fish for the edification Of
Washington anglers, and permit SWIM
ming, now strictly prohibited, in GER
tain portions
Mr.. Finnan has toyed with the idea
of stocking the creek, once the nat
ural home of large-mouthed black bass,
for years. He thought of trout for some
time, but experts advised the creek is
too warm for trout
"Large-mouths would be the logical
species to use, as they were native to
the creek originally and were driven
out by pollution" he said today.
In line with Mr.. Finnan's ideas for
stocking the stream came word today
from the United States Bureau of
Fisheries that it also had had the idea
'in the back of its head as we'll" 1t
was indicated the bureau would CO.
operate in every way with the restock-
ing If de-pollution were realized.
Asked as to whether yellow perch,
pickerel, sunfish and small-mouthed
black bass would be feasible, fisheries
experts said perch and pickerel were
too predatory and small-mouths liked
bigger bodies of water, but that sun
fish would be fine. "A combination
OF large-mouthed bass and sunnsh
would provide sport for old and young
alike and would be best fitted to the
water, they said.
The bureau already has stocked out
lying portions of the creek in Mont
gomery County with trout but Is Of
the opinion the main course OF the
creek is too warm.
AS for the swimming, Mr.. Finnan
said it was strictly prohibited now
because Of pollution, but that certain
sections Of the stream might well be
set aside for this purpose if the stream
were cleared up.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

to be developed as . recreational area.
The new sewer will connect the
Georgetown interceptor with the Piney
Branch trunk sewer-a distance of
several miles through and bordering
the park. The study was based on .
report made in 1885 by Leroy K. sher-
man and Westley Horner, consulting
P. w. A. engineers. The work will
entail some skillful engineering, as
three tunnels will be provided to cut
through the steep hills in the park.
From the Georgetown interceptor,
near the Potomac shore, the proposed
sewer will follow the ridge of the park
to Twenty-second and P streets. At
that point 1t will enter an underground
tunnel, the portal Of which will be
south of the Taft Memorial Bridge.
Then it will extend over the ground on
the north side Of Calvert Bridge and
60 into another tunnel which will run
into an open cut near the Adams Mill
road. Then the sewer will extend
some 1900 feet to the Piney Branch
trunk sewer In the vicinity Of Eight.
oenth street at tbe park.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

Fowler and Detective Sergt Earl Hart
man. worked for more than a year on
the murder before the case finally was
broken. As result OF the squads
investigations. during which the
officers travelled thousands OF miles, a
local gambling ring was broken up,
and the men responsible for the
murder were sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
1t. Truscott also received COM
mendation In 1882 for his work on the
Wimbley- -Crowder murders, and again
in 1888 for capturing band of bank
robbers. In addition he received five
other concentrations for his participa-
ton in the solving Of cases involving
everything from purse snatching to
safe robbing.
1t. Truscott led squad of crack
detectives in an effort to rid the city
of gambling last year. during which
time l24 persons, including five police
men, were arrested on gaming charges.
The prosecution Of the gambling cases
fell through, and the policemen were
reinstated, when evidence secured by
District wire-tapping was ruled
inadmissable in court.
His most recent case was in connec-
ton with the investigation and re-
opening of the Beulah Limerick mur-
der, Which ended with the acquittal
Of Robert Langdon, ex-policeman.
Named to Force in 1925.
1t. Truscott was appointed to the
police force May 81. 1925. and was
first assigned to No. precinct. He was
made precinct detective July 8, 1880,
and on January l, 1881, was promoted
to detective sergeant. He was pro-
NOTED to the rank of lieutenant July
/, 1885.
Maj. Brown announced that Detec-
tive Sergt. Earl Hartman, who served
with 1t. Truscott on most of the
squads cases, would be placed in
charge of the special investigating
squad, and probably would be given the
rank of acting lieutenant
Maj. Brown explained the vacancy
in a precinct was the result of the
promotion of 1t. John E. Scott. and
his assignment in charge of the Metro
politan Police Boys Club, to be sta
toned at police headquarters.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

Miss Temple Bailey. well-known nov
elist and veteran Red Cross worker,
yesterday declared her whole hearted
support of the Districts twenty second
annual Red Cross roll call as she
joined the ranks of thousands of Dis
trict residents already enrolled in the
1898 drive for funds.
Praising the work of the many
trained groups in the Red Cross, Miss
Bailey said Il sincerely hope the Dis
trict Chapters drive for 100000 men,
bers this year will meet with success.
The humanitarian and always avail
able service of the Red Cross again
has indicated its value in the recent
flood and hurricane in New England,
as it did in the Ohio Valley flood last
year and on every similar occasion
where urgent assistance has been des-
perately needed"
She pointed out that some of the
greatest and most important services
Of the Red Cross are performed in
times of peace" even though many
people associate the organizations ac-
tivities with periods of war. The Red
Cross organizations are we'll trained
and prepared at all times to cope with
any emergency in war or in peace" "
she said. - III
Miss Bailey, who has lived at the
Wardman Park Hotel for q number
of years, was an active worker in the
Red Cross during the war, serving
as an instructor in the making Of
surgical dressings. In 1919 she wrote
THE Tin Soldier" a war story, which
subsequently was selected by the
French government for its files as
presenting true picture of war.
Later in st. Louis Miss Bailey served
as a trained volunteer with the Hos
pital and Recreation Corps, which was
known to the soldiers as The Gray
Ladies" because of their uniforms
The organization was formed to pro-
vide amusement. entertainment and
comfort of soldiers confined to hos
pitals.
Miss Bailey revealed that the idea
for one of her most popular stories
was inspired by an experience during
Evening star., 1938-09-29
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
T0nAV

Entertainment and social. Wilson
Memorial M. E. Church, 756 Eleventh
street southeast, o'clock.
Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club, Carle-
ton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, agriculture department Of
United States Chamber Of Commerce,
Carleton Hotel, l pm.
Luncheon, Phi Delta Theta, Iafay-
cite Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, Strayer,s Business College
Sorority, Hamilton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting and buffet supper, Curtis
Publishing Co., shoreham Hotel, 7:3o
pm.
Benefit party, Sons and Daughters
Of Liberty, Northeast Masonic Temple.
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

about repeal? Let's put EN- wise,
poor things"
So We spot three cuties and stop
them.
"Ahem," We tell them. girls, We
bear glad tidings of great joy-the
new deal for freshmen is here. Throw
OF the symbols of first-year slavery
and how about dates tonight?"
They slip us quick mo wantcha'
and are of in furry of green hair
ribbons
NO, but honest" We yell. "Yol
don't have to wear those things"
Its fun" says one named Barbara
Smith.
piles of it." agrees Margaret Binder
Good for freshmen" puts in Mar
gerry Warner.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

Well. agrees the bunch of US. Samari-
tans all, phooey on them Let's en-
tighten this fellow. Name card says
Hugh Leidel. Hey. Leidel."
Yes, sirs." he returns.
MY friend" we solemnly sermonize,
''it's all over. The Governor of North
Carolina said to the Governor Of South
Carolina it's a long time between
dinks. Away with the badge of servi-
tude"
"Qh, that's all right" he beams
You're only freshman once. It..
okay with me-"
We're stunned We try to reason
the thing out. It's against the law fol
them to be like that Then we hit or
it. The next day We revoke the revo-
cation. Freshmen just will be fresh.
men, after all. They like it.
Evening star., 1938-09-29
100000 SOUGHT
FROM ?. v A. FOR
GRAvELLY POINT
Secretary Ickes DiscIoses
Request to Push Work
on Airport.
1,210,000 CUBIC YARDS
OF MATERIAL DUMPED
Dredging Of Past Several Years
Has Advanced Building Of
Proposed Field.

With preliminary dredging work al
ready under way for the new Gravelly
Point Airport site. P. w. A. Admins
traitor Ickes disclosed today he has
received $4,Oo0.Ooo application to
finance development of the field.
Nj. Ickes said he did not know the
total cost of the airport, since addi-
tional funds are to obtained from the
Works Progress Administration and
the War Department.
Levees totaling approximately 5000
feet in length have been constructed
along the Washington Channel side
of the proposed airport and behind
these levees between 80 and 40 acres
Of made ground now rise above the
high water level, according to E. A.
Schmitt, chief engineer of the Army
engineer ONCE for the local district.
Has Been Catch Basin.
The Gravelly Point site has been the
catch basin for all river dredging oper-
ations since the filling of Columbia
1slaad was completed more than six
years ago.
Gravelly Point first was selected as a
potential airport site for Washington
in 1926. On August 10 of that year,
at conference of representatives of
the Aero Club of Washington, Chapter
Of the National Aeronautics AsS6ci-
alton, the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and the district
Army engineer Office. the Gravelly
Point site was named as the first
choice for local airport. Two years
earlier the same site had Peen con-
sidered by the War Department as
substitute for Boiling Field.
Eight years ago a joint congressional
airport commission headed by former
Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecti-
cut recommended the immediate I'M
provement of Washington Airport and
the development of Gravelly Point as
the future permanent air termina!
site for Washington.
Many Hearings Held.
During every Congress since 1927
legislation authorizing the develop
ment Of an airport At Qravelly Point
has been introduced and in virtually
every session hearings have been held.
Estimates Of cost ranging from $780,
600 for l20-acre airport in 1927 to
$4,000, 900 for 266 acres in 1884 were
prepared by the local Army engineer
ONCE.
Dredging to deepen Anacostia and
Georgetown Channels was begun in
the summer Of 1886, the dredged ma
terial being deposited behind earth
levees around the Gravelly Point site.
Since that time the depositing of ma
terial on the Gravelly Point hats has
been going on almost continuously in
connection with routine channel clear
ing operations, deepening of the chan
mel from % to "a feet and clearing
OF the Washington Channel in prep
aration for the present waterfront
development program. This work now
has virtually been completed and only
q relatively small amount of dredged
material remains to be deposited on
the Gravelly Point site in connection
with the channel deepening and har-
Dor improvement operations for which
funds so far have been made available.
KING WON'T OBJECT.
Evening star., 1938-09-29

There's gratitude for you. Every
one says freshmen rules are silly-no
sense to them. Freshmen are as good
as anybody else, they say.
Okay, says We out at American
University, let's abolish freshmen
rules, and We do-by vote of the stu
dent body last spring.
Then We come back this fall with
big, soft spot in our hearts for the
poor and downtrodden frosh. bless 'em,
and what is the first thing we see
fellows wandering around with green
ties and green dinks and girls with
green hair ribbons. Well. you could
have knocked us over with Hurst
Hall.
Shades Of place-kicking co-ed!"
we Yodel Didn't these guys hear
Evening star., 1938-09-29
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

>~A>~oOAS
The Public Works Administration
today counted up $l8,146.000 in loans
and grants approved to date for mu-
nicipal construction in the District
and realized it had reached the limit
Of the sum Congress authorized the
Commissioners to accept under the
1888 spending program.
In agreeing to a final allotment
of $4618,375 for additional sewers,
most of which are intended to check
pollution in Rock Creek, the Com
missioners sacrificed urgently needed
funds for other local improvements.
As the P. w. A. books were legally
closed today on any more advance
ments to the District unless Secretary
Ickes decides on partial revision of
the program, the record shows Fed
eral contributions of $8,165, 700 and
loans amounting to $9,980. 300 repay
able within Is years. Actually the
approvals are only $4,000 short OF the
$l8,15OO00 authorization under the
Districts P. w. A. law.
While several long desired projects
were lost during the stages of neces-
sary compromise and revision of the
program, the Commissioners Jared ex-
ceedingly we'll and have the satisfac-
ton of getting $ls,146,00O worth Of
needed construction done eventually
at cost to the District of less than
$l0,000,0 900.
Eight Schools Lost"
There was keen disappointment In
other circles, however, when it was
realized that the applications which
fell by the wayside included such
important projects as eight public
school buildings to relieve overcrowd-
ing, 300-bed ward for the Glenn
Dale tuberculosis Hospital, three Pub
lie Library branches, the Fort drive
and health center. The proposed
National Guard armory, which must
wait on an appropriation by Congress,
was rejected, but the District gained
an increase in the allotment for the
Municipal Center, which brought the
total fund for it to IS, 700, 900.
AAS ACWAy uAOtCu 1OI SCWCl
construction were in addition to $751;
625 approved for miscellaneous sewer
improvements, making a total of S.
$4,000 for work of this kind. A large
proportion of this sum is intended for
the abatement of pollution that now
causes an Objectionable nuisance in
the Potomac and its tributaries with
in the metropolitan area of WASH
ington.
Other items approved for the Dis
trict and the amounts allotted for each
are as follows:
Municipal Court, 81, 500 600; Juvenile
Court, $550,000; Gallinger Hospital,
ward building, $3.50, 900; Gallinger Hos
pital, nurses home, moreue and miscel-
laneous buildings, $575,00O.
Municipal Center, IS, TOO 900; public
schools. $l,030,000; fire alarm system
and building, 100000; jail, addition
and improvements, $1,000 900; Lorton
(va) Reformatory, sewage and water
works. 100000; District Training
School at Laurel. Md, hospital and
administration building, $260,000.
New War Building Included.
Several additional millions in P. w.
A. grants for Federal expenditure in
the District were authorized from the
old and new funds. Chief among these
was $4,000, 900 for purchase of land and
initiation of plans for the new War
Department Building.
Other Federal grants include $780,
900 for sewers at the Navy Yard,
Evening star., 1938-09-29
WANT D. c. RESIDENT
Rock Creek Civic Body Makes
Proposal for Commissioner.

Appointment of "a bona fide resident
Of the District. well versed in civic
matters" as successor to Commits
sioner George E. Allen was asked in .
resolution adopted last night by the
Rock Creek Civic Association for pres
entation to the President.
The organization also voted to ask
the Alley Dwelling Authority to sur
vey the old Georgetown area with q
view to launching . slum clearance
program.