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Evening star., 1938-01-05
FUND T0ENLARCE
JAIL IS PROVIDED
Workhouse and Reforma-
tory improvements Ap.
proved in 0. C. Budget.

Enlargement and modernization Of
the District Jail, long urged by both
District and Federal experts, will be
started next fiscal year If Congress
approves the 1899 municipal budget
proposals.
Approving recommendations by
District officials, the Budget Bureau
also has proposed funds for expansion
OF housing facilities for prisoners at
the WorkhouSe and reformatory, for
resumption Of the construction of the
walled group there and for an increase
OF 20 in the number Of guards.
For an addition to the Jail, the bu-
reau recommended $l25,000, or half
Of the proposed program of expansion
and modernization This would pro-
vide for new administrative Offices, a
hospital for prisoners, walled exer-
else yard and private quarters to be
used as an execution chamber. Exc
cutions now are held in the mess hall
OF the Jail for lack Of better quarters.
Immediate Start Provided.
The bureau proposed that $500 be
made Immediately available for the
preparation of plans for the Jail prof.
ect. The proposed construction of ad-
ditions to the Jail was adopted as an
alternative to the more costly con-
struction Of an entirely new jail A
campaign for improvement of the Jail
was started after conditions of crowd
ing there were revealed in series of
stories in The Star a year and a
haf ago.
For the workhouse and reforma-
tory the bureau proposes appropria-
tions aggregating $l.164,1 100, as
against $l,006,140 for this year.
Enclosure Work Halted.
Construction OF the walled inclosure
was halted this year because funds
were needed for other purposes, but
the bureau recommended S45, 900 for
this project for next year. Congress
appropriated $4,000 for the work last
year. Another item requested is sl05.-
900 for central warehouse and the
bureau also asks s1l 900 for continual
tion Of construction Of the group of
permanent buildings for woman pris-
oners. Fol. this year Congress pro-
vided $45. 1000 for this project.
For the maintenance of prisoners
the bureau approved s469,000. or
about $4,000 more than this year.
Reductions in appropriation for a
number Of the agencies under the
Board Of Public Welfare were pro-
posed by the Budget Bureau. Most of
them were relatively small
Evening star., 1938-01-05
BUDGET SUM BASED
ON HIGHWAY SLASH
Total Assumes That Congress
Will Follow His Plea to Can.
eel $216,0OO,0O Fund.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt based the Gov
ernment's budget for the 1899 fiscal
year today on the assumption Congress
will act favorably on his recon-.
mendation that $216,O00, 900 author
ization for highway work be Cancelled.
Where Congress authorized expendi-
ture of $433,000,000 during the 1888
and 1899 fiscal years, the Chief Ex-
ecutive proposed only total of $192,-
600, 0,000-s100,O00 this year and
$92 100000 next year.
The Presidents recommendation
for cancellation of the 1899 program,
in the interest of a balanced budget,
was not acted on by the recent special
session.
Secretary Wallace, in allocating
grants to States last week under the
1899 authorization, requested the Gov
ernors to ignore them until Congress
has had more time to study the Presi-
dents recommendations.
However, Chairman Cartwright of
the House Roads Committee has said
he would not ask his colleagues to
withdraw the ALLEGATIONS.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
DISTRICT DEFICIT OF $5000OOO SEEN in BUDGET FIGURES
$l9l, 40 Health Budget Raise
Boosts Gallinger Staff by So
Increase IN Glenn Dale Personnel and
Building of Second Polytechnic
Also Provided.

tic attendants, four clerks, five me
chanics, il additional minor attend
ants and three extra internes.
Maintenance Item Raised.
Employment of these additional
workers would raise the salary item
from $468,56O to $529,7SO. Also, the
bureau proposes to raise the mainte-
nance item from $270,000 to $500, 900,
and the repair fund from $4,5OC
to $4,000. For repairs and improve
ments to the old tuberculosis Hospital,
the bureau asks $1,000 In all the
Gallinger costs would be boosted by
$50, ,720, including the operation of the
Upshur street building.
The second Of the health centers
would be built in Southwest Washing
ton, either on District owned property
or site to be purchased The bureau
proposes an item of 100000. The first
of the poly-clinics. for which Congress
appropriated $l65,000. is to be built
at First and l. streets NV, unless
Congress revokes this appropriation
and forces the District to buy the
old Homeopathic Hospital, which Dis
trict officials have called unsuited for
the purpose.
The bureau also proposed a $4,000
increase in the item for operation of
the Districts tuberculosis and venereal
disease clinics and the employment of
five additional nurses for the health
department generalized nursing SER
vice.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
BLOOD TEST PLAN
STUDIED BY SEAL
Proposal in Regard to Cases of
Suspected Drunkenness
Weighed.

A proposal by Health Officer George
c. Ruhland that blood tests be given
all persons taken to municipal hos
pitals for treatment as drunk was
studied today by Corporation Counsel
ElwoOd H. Seal to determine if the
proposed regulation would be an in
vasion OF persons constitutional
rights.
DR.. Ruhland let it be known that lie
favors the compulsory blood test for
all persons suspected of being intoxi-
Gated and taken to municipal hos
pitals. His plan was said to have been
suggested as a result of treatment
given at Gallinger Hospital to Thomas
P. Gallagher on New Year morning.
who was suspected of being intoxicated
and later found to have been suffering
from a brain conclusion.
Mr. Seal recalled that q little more
than a year ago he had advised the
Commissioners that a compulsory
blood test for intoxication could not be
required legally under existing District
law.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
PLAN TO DIVERT
GAS TAX IS HIT
Proposal to Use Fund for Street
Lighting Costs Denounced
bv Auto Club.

The American Automobile Associa-
ton today branded as outrageous and
indefensible" the Budget Bureaus re-
ported proposal to divert $765 900 Of
the Districts motor tax revenue to
street lighting costs.
There is no justification for placing
the cost of street lighting on the
motorists alone, Russell E. Singer, A.
A. A. general manager, said. Lighting
Is needed for the good of the COM
munity in general. and its costs should
be met by the community in general,
he declared.
The bureaus proposal is just an
other instance of attempting to load
the motorist with expenses not prop
erly charged to him." Mr.. Singer said.
1T Is particularly indefensible at the
present time when every available
penny is needed for carrying out Capt.
H. c. Whitehurst's program of street
and highway improvement in the Dis
trict and when motor vehicle owner
ship already is suffering from excessive
taxation
This year, he pointed out, with
heavily increased registration fees,
motor vehicle registrations have de-
clined by some 5000, in sharp con-
trast with the rest of the country.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
$13,500, 900 NAVAL AIR
STATION WORK TO BEGIN
Bids for Dredging and Fill to Be
Opened January 26 for
Alameda (Calif.) Base.

The Navy plans immediate devel-
opment of new Naval Air Station
at Alameda, Calf, on San Francisco
Bay, Secretary Swanson announced
today. The project will cost S13,-
100000.
AS a first step the Navy is advertis-
ing for bids, to be opened January
26, for furnishing some 100000 cubic
yards of dredging and fill, steel
sheet-pile bulkhead 5000 feet long,
jetties inclosing the lagoon to be
utilized for seaplane operations and
stone riprap sea wall to retain part
of the fill on the future landing field.
Naval engineers estimate this phase
of the job will obligate the Sl,000.000
appropriation for initial development
of the site. made available in the
current naval supply act. The Bu-
reau Of Yards and Docks Is concen-
trating on plans and specifications
for the remaining structures and i'm.
provements. Bids for these will be
called for as soon as Congress pro-
vides the necessary funds.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
DISTRICT RELIEF
CUT BY BUDGET.
Heavy Reduction in Staff
Required-Grand Total
$2,667,887.

Ignoring the plea of welfare officials
for large new appropriation for relief
Of employable persons, the Budget
Bureau today recommended a heavy
reduction in the staff of the Public
| Assistance Division and a cut in the
total outlay for relief operations as a
whole.
II proposed heavy cut in disburse-
merits for relief Of unemployable per-
sons but raised considerably the pro-
posed appropriations for ~old-age as
sistance.
For all four major categories of
relief combined. the bureau proposed
District appropriations aggregating
sl,808 900, or 1921 900 less than this
years fund of s2039.41O, for direct
relief, home care OF dependent chill
dren, old-age assistance and aid to
the needy blind
Total Of S2.667,8S7.
Adding expected Federal grants to
be made under the Social Security
program. the total would be increased
to 1861 1877. or ss4,116 less than the
sums available this year. $2,752,003
The bureau proposes that the staff
for direct relief activities be cut from
155 to 81. in keeping with a continu-
alton of 10 per cent limitation on
administrative costs: and it proposed
that the staff for old-age assistance
be cut from SIS to 81. Thus the
Public Assistance Division staff as a
whole would be reduced from 2l0 to 81.
s4,O79,000 Requested.
The Board of Public Welfare had
requested appropriations totaling $4.-
079,000. including new item Of
ST ,225. 900 for care of some 5000 en-
ployable persons, plus an increase in
the outlay for unemployables.
The Commissioners did not sponsor
this request. which totaled more
than twice the sum appropriated for
this year.
The bureau proposed that the sum
for direct relief be cut from 81 1886, 500
to 100000. For old-age assistance.
however. it recommended an increase
from s5O3,265 to S705,OOO, counting on
the transfer of many additional cases
from direct relief to the old age cate
CORY. 1t estimated the District next
year should provide for no less than
$500 cases on old-age assistance.
For home care of dependent chill
dren. the bureau approved District
allotment Of sl63.000. the same as
for this year. The item for aid to the
needy blind was raised from s36, ,645
to $4,000
Evening star., 1938-01-05
CENTRAL LIBRARY
PLANS REJECTED
Budget Bureau Ignores New
Building Request-S522,-
$40 Allowed.

Missing from the 1889 District bud
get estimates as transmitted to Con-
gress today by the Budget Bureau are
the proposed items for a site for a
new central public library building
and for site and plans for a branch
library in Anacostia.
The bureau recommended a total
appropriation for the Public Library
OF s522.370, as against the current
appropriation of s629,830.
S850.000 Sought.
The Board of Library Trustees had
recommended to the Commissioners
an appropriation of s850,000 for the
purchase of site for a new home
for the central labrary, s5O.0O0 for
the preparation of plans for the new
central building. which was estimated
to cost $l,600,000; s175.0O0 for con-
struction of a branch library as part
of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Junior High School and $l5.500 for
site and plans for the Anacostia
branch.
The bureau proposals contains no
items for new construction. or new
sites, but there is pending before
Congress a bill introduced in the last
regular session by Chairman Collins
of the House Subcommittee on Dis
trict Appropriations proposing spe-
cial legislation for the new central
library project.
on-Recurring Item Factor.
Most OF the reduction from last
years appropriation as detailed in
the Budget Bureau report is accounted
for by the fact there is a non-recur-
ring item for completion of the new
Petworth branch library.
The bureau, however, proposed q
slash of 100000 in the current ap-
preparation for books, periodicals and
other printed matter. The item this
year was s84,500, and would be cut
tn $54,500.
Evening star., 1938-01-05

Moved by pleas of District officials
for the relief of congestion at Gal
linger Municipal Hospital and for
expansion of other health department
activities, the Budget Bureau has rec
commended an increase Of $191 ,470 in
the departments appropriations for
the next fiscal year.
Congressional approval would pro-
vide for operation Of the old Tubercu-
losis Hospital at Fourteenth and Up
shur streets NV. as an adjunct to
Gallinger, for an increase of So in the
Gallinger staff in connection with the
plant expansion. for an increase in the
staff at the tuberculosis Sanatoria at
Glenn Dale, Md, and for construction
OF the second of the health centers
or poly-clinics.
S2,4O4.660 Allowed.
Appropriations for the health de-
partment for all purposes next year
would be $2.404.660, under the budget
proposals, as against s2,213,19O for
this year.
Among the SO new positions recon-
mended for the dual Gallinger staff
would be one assistant medical officer,
one junior medical officer, one assist
ant chief nurse and three additional
head nurses, one medical technician,
one assistant dietitian, II additional
graduate nurses, one assistant social
worker. seven additional hospital at
tendants. two additional junior domes-
Evening star., 1938-01-05
JACKSON DAYL|ST
TO Be IMPORTANT.
Attendants at Dinners Will
Be Noted, One Senator
Indicates.
By the Associated Press.

Jackson Day dinner for the Ma
tion's Democrats will have special
significance this year, party leaders
said today, in view of the recent split
over the court reorganization and
wage-hour bills.
The dinners, designed to wipe out
the party deficit, will be held Satur-
day night on the anniversary of An
drew Jackson's victory at the Battle
of New Orleans. Severe winter
weather has caused their postpone
ment in several States.
Prominent party members pointed
out that the gatherings will be the
first on national scale since the
Senate killed the Roosevelt court pro-
gram.
Attendants to Be Listed.
Attendance at the dinners will be
watched closely in view of this fact
said one Democratic Senator.
Others forecast that an appeal for
party harmony would be the keynote.
The principal celebration will be the
dinner here, at which President Roose-
welt will speak. Speculation on the
tenor of his address varied from opin-
ions that he would be more Jack
sonian" than he was in his congress
sional message, to predictions that he
would go easy on business"
Those who attend the Washington
dinner will pay sl00 each. Those who
attend the dinner in New York will
pay $50 each, and diners in the other
States s25 each.
Five dollars covers the cost of the
meal. The remainder will go to the
Democratic National Committee. which
reported Monday that the partys pres
ent deficit was s2l1,295. Party officials
estimate 100000 to s25O,O0O will be
raised by the dinners
State Issues to Be Weighed.
State as we'll as national issues are
expected to be discussed by Democrats
at the Jackson Day meetings.
In New York. for example, State
Democratic leaders will talk over pos
sible nominations for Governor at a
luncheon conference called by Post
master General Farley.
Administration leaders. watching
political trends in advance of the
November congressional elections, ex-
pressed pleasure over the nomination
yesterday of Representative Lister Hill
for Senator from Alabama.
Representative Hill ran as an avowed
New Dealer against former Senator
Helm. Legislators here noted espe-
cially that Mr.. Hill favored the wage
hour bill, opposed by many Southern
Congressmen.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
BUDGET PROVIDES
FOR NEW BRIDGE
Dupont Circle. Underpass
Among Major Items
Approved.

Replacement of the old Pennsylva-
MIA Avenue Bridge over the Anacostia
River. and construction of an UNDER
pass for street cars and vehicles in
the line OF Connecticut avenue under
Dupont Circle, are the two major
projects proposed by the Budget Bu-
reau as charge against the 1899
highway funds.
Both of these items have been
anticipated in the plans OF District
officials, but the budget message
reveals that it is now proposed to
postpone construction Of a street car
underpass for Thomas Circle and
extensive revamping OF Scott Circle
for automobile traffic.
House Members Have Plans.
The Commissioners announced re-
Gently they had decided to defer
construction of K street viaduct
as a bypass for Georgetown traffic
for at least two years However,
several members of the House have
in mind deflni. plans for other major
traffic projects which may be inserted
in the program.
The Budget Bureau proposed to
spend a total of $5,722.14O of the
special gasoline tax and highway reve-
nues for street and bridge projects, as
against $4,6l3, 100 appropriated for this
year.
Widening Included.
The bureau specified a number Of
widening, paving and resurfacing prof.
ects as part of the highway program.
The proposed street widening projects
follow:
K street from Twelfth street to
Connecticut avenue NV, to cost
$l2l 100; Twelfth street from New
York to Massachusetts, avenues NV,
$46, 800; New York avenue from Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets NV.
(north side). $4,000, and Twelfth
street from Constitution to Independ-
ence avenues NV, S84, 500.
The bureau proposed the following
paving or resurfacing items:
Blair road NV. from Peabody to
Aspen streets, 100000; Kennedy street,
from Kansas avenue to Fourteenth
street, $4,000; Branch avenue Sc.
from Denver street to District line,
10000, and long list of other streets,
to be supplied later, the total cost of
which is estimated at $377, 500.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
PEPC0 RATE QUIZ
TO BE JANUARY rs
Public Utilities Commission Will
Receive Data on Reasonable
ness of Return.

January IS has been set by the
Public Utilities Comission as the date
for the public hearing on the pro-
posed reduction from 6.5 to per cent
OF the basic rate of return allowed
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
When commission officials an
nounced recently they would hold q
hearing on the reasonableness of the
basic return allowed the company
under its sliding scale plan some
experts figured that the adoption OF
q 6 per cent level might mean con-
sumer rate reduction this year of be-
tween $700, 900 and $1,000. 900.
Evening star., 1938-01-05

in the staff Of the public assistance
division and in the outlay for re-
lief operations.
Library Funds Cut $4,000.
The free Public Library suffered a
100000 reduction under current ap-
preparations for purchase of books,
periodicals. newspapers and other
printed materials. And besides, none
OF its recommendations to the Com
missioners~ for funds to purchase a
site for the proposed new central
library and other expansions were
found in the approved budget esti-
mates.
Despite agitation for funds to fill
the ofice Of peoples counsel, left
vacant by the resignation of William
A. Roberts, there is no item in the
budget for that purpose Neither is
there provision for ablishment of
a farm" for inebriates at Lorton,
which Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
has urged for several years.
The budget does contain a few
eAAt'aoA liol, ~ PlOQOSCS
to transfer the s765 900 cost for street
lighting from the general revenue fund
to the gasoline tax fund, which would
force automobile owners to pay the
bill. Such diversion Of gasoline tax
funds, it IS believed, might jeopardize
Federal allotment to the District for
highway aid.
Another odd feature of the budget
is an item Of $1,000 for employment
OF three additional auditors for the
Public Utilities Commission. which,
an explanatory statement said, should
be used for an investigation Of the
rates Of the Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co.
The Budget Bureau, Of course, has
no authority in law to order a utility
rate inquiry, and even If it did, the
cost would have to be assessed against
the phone company.
U. s. Bears Part Of Court Costs.
Then provision is made to relieve
the District from partial payment of
the support Of the United States Court
for the District and the Court Of Ap-
peals-a plan estimated to save tax
payers about s255, 730 in the coming
fiscal year. The District would be
required to pay so per cent of the
cost of operating the District Court
and 30 per cent of the expenditures
OF the Court of Appeals.
Transfer of the support of the courts
from the District to the Federal Gov
ernment has long been advocated by
the Commissioners. As a result of
the budget set-up. items for the courts
appear in the estimates of the Justice
Department instead of the District
budget. The District. however, will
be required to pay $272, 1885 as its share
OF the expense under the new plan,
although there is no item in its budget
for that amount. That, together with
the 5000, 900, appearing in the Interior
Departments budget as the Districts
share of supporting patients in Freed
mems Hospital, make up the $472.375
additional which is not accounted for
IN the District budgets net total of
$47,344.702.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
GEN. DELIGNY DIES

LlsIEUX. France, Jan. S (R.-Gen.
Henri Victor Deligny, who commanded
the defense of verdun for time dur
ing the World War, died yesterday.
He was g. years old.
* Gen. Dehgny, commander of the
lst and Sd Army Corps in the war,
abo served In ths hrst battle Of the
Marn4
Evening star., 1938-01-05
MOTHER SEEKS TO VOID
MARRIAGE OF DAUGHTER
BY the Associated Press.

By tne ASSoclated Press.
TOWSON, Md, Jan. 5.-Mrs. Will
liam Keyser, jr., yesterday filed suit
for annulment of the marriage of her
daughter Jane to Donald Crane,
formerly butler>ip the Keyser home.
Papers in the suit said Miss Keyser,
%, and Crane, 80. eloped to Rock
vile and were married December II.
The girl then returned to her home,
tho papers Said. and has remained
there since.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
FATHER HELD IN DEATH
Mi1d-Manner storekeeper Accused
of Killing Daughter, 5.

NEW YORK, Jan. R.-Urban
Kaufman, normally mild-mannered
owner of a delicatessen store, stood
accused today of beating to death his
5-year-old daughter jeanette with a
hammer and of seriously injuring his
wife in the same outburst.
Neighbors saw kaufman emerge
with bloody hands and run. shrieking,
to the police to accuse himself.
His wife is reported In critical con-
dition.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
$13,45OEach Minute
In Year to Be Spent
Under New Budget

~ the Associated Press.
The budget which President
Roosevelt sent Congress today
called for the spending of $l3.450
. minute in the next fiscal year.
On a daily basis, here are coEl-
parative figures:
Average spent last six months,
$40, 1896 900 a day.
Average estimated next six
months, $19,710,000 a day.
Average estimated for the 1889
Ascal year, $19,367 900 a day.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
WILL GRADE ENSIGNS

The Navy Department today set
the machinery in motion for the
grading Of ensigns. of the class Of
1886 at the close of their two-year
legal probationary period ending in
June. These officers are now stationed
throughout the United States Fleet
and number more than 400. r
Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews,
chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
issued a circular letter to all ships
and stations regarding this program.
He directed that fnal reports be IN
hand by June 1.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
BELTSVILLE IS GIVEN
$4,000 IN NEW BUDGET
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Presidents budget message to
Congress today included an estimate
of $S5,000 for administration. main
tensnce and operation Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture Research Center
at Beltsville, Md, for the fiscal year
1899.
The estimate represented . $4,000
increase over the 1888 appropriation.
Evening star., 1938-01-05
PRESIDENT REAPPOINTS
>' MAHAFFIE AND LUBIN
Names OF Keyserling and Latimer
Are Sent to Senate for Housing
Authority Posts.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today nomi-
mated Charles D. Mahaffie and Isador
Lubin today to be, respectively, an
Interstate commerce commissioner and
commissioner Of labor statistics. Both
are reappointments.
The President also sent to the SEN
ate the nominations of Leon H. Key
serling of New York to be general
counsel Of the United States Housing
Authority. and j. Austin Latimer of
south Carolina to be director OF in
formation OF the authority while serv-
ing as assistant to the administrator.
Evening star., 1938-01-05

A group Of American-type homes are
to be constructed in Guatemala, Guat-
emAla.
Evening star., 1938-01-05

in the stan Of the public assistance
division and in the outlay for re-
lief operations.