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Evening star., 1938-03-27
REORCAN|zINC BILL
VOTE TOMORROW
Senate Move to Recommit
to PreCede Ballot on
Passage.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

With the Senate scheduled finally
to vote on the administrators reor-
ganization bill at 5 pm. tomorrow
providing the measure survives a vote
on motion to recommit at 3 p.m.-
House strategists who are handling
the drive for the administration and
the coalition forces opposed are laying
their plans.
Administration stalWarts such as
Majority Leader Rayburn. Chairman
Cochran of the Reorganization and
Expenditures Committees. Represen-
tatlveS Vinson of Kentucky, Mead of
New York and Warren of North Caro-
lima are claiming the House will
promptly approve an omnibus reor-
ganization bill which will give the
President even more power than the
bill finally drafted in the Senate.
They are passing the word along that
the bill will be written in conference
between managers for the House and
Senate) to meet the wishes of the
President"
The schedule calls for action in the
Senate tomorrow from noon to 3 pm
on various amendments. including cne
by Senator King, Democrat, Of Utah
to strike out of the bill the provision
tor a new Department of Welfare
and failing in that to prohibit ex-
pansion of Federal control over educa-
II " o.
to be taken on the motion of Senator
Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts
to recommit the bill.
Successful in Senate.
Administration leaders have been
successful so far in Senate battles over
drastic reorganization of the civil
service by abolishing the bipartisan
commission and setting up a single
administrator. and over abolition of
the office of controller general and
the function Of pre-audit, substituting
an auditor general and a post audit"
Some generally Well-informed Sena-
tors still insist. however. the vote on
the Walsh motion to recommit will be
quite close" 1t also is said the
President, in long distance telephone
conferences from Warm Springs, has
been giving assurances to Stave off
opposition Of railway labor unions in
an effort to strengthen the admins
tration position
II the omnibus reorganization bill
passes the Senate, it is said the admin
lstratlon strategy is to place it as an
amendment to one Of the two reorgan-
ization bills passed by the House last
session. The House Reorganization
Committee divided the Presidents rec
concentrations into four bills-l) an
increased White House secretariat;
90 blanket reorganization powers to
the President and authorizing of a
new welfare department, both of
which were passed by the House; 90
abolition of the Civil Service Commits
sion, setting up single "administra-
tor; and % abolishing the Controller
General and substituting new Office
of auditor general. BY direction of
the White House the House Committee
made no effort in this session to get
action on either Of the latter two bills.
The Senate now proposes to place
the omnibus reorganization bill as an
on the bill giving the
President broad reorganization powers
and creating the new department.
This is done. it is explained, to dodge
Evening star., 1938-03-27
GOLD CUP DANCE
TOMORROW NIGHT
Gay Nineties Ball Sponsors
Plan Entertainment
Features.

The third annual Gold Cup Gay
Nineties Bail of the Presidents Cup
Regatta will be held in the Willard
Hotel ballroom tomorrow from 10
pm. to am, with the dancers cos
TUNED in mid-Victorian fashions.
The guests will be greeted by Mr..
and Mrs. j. George Wenzel, Mr.. and
Mrs, George D. Sullivan. Mrs. Lewis
Hall Ward and William j. McManus
High light of the evening will be the
music hall revue, led by the Floor
Committee, including Robert H. David
son. Harold S. Fitz. NJ B. Reynolds,
E. L. Herman, ]. E. Laskey, c. W.
Mahoney. M. L. Beall, A. K. Bowie,
E. N. Bozarth, N. ]. Krone, j. E.
Morcock, jr.; L. O. Norris. L. A.
schneebel, R, M. Richter, ir; c. F.
Small, j. E. Chase, L. B Davis, r. E.
Levitt, P, B. Longley, w. F. Studdi-
ford, B. S. Gillian, H. E. Mockbee. jr;
r. E. Cough, R. P. Hiltner, H. v.
Greene, R. L. Merrick. v. P. Waiter.
G. A. Small, H. NJ Tucker, l.. P.
Harsch and Donald Lilley.
Arraved in summer costume of the
o0s Miss Janet Coon will make her
final Washington appearance before
leaving for the West Coast. Miss
jeanette Bittner will sing an old-fash-
ioned song medley, and Lorraine and
Lindon will dance The Sidewalks of
New York
The Marion Chase dancers, includ-
Ing the Misses Karel Vega. Mary Will
llams. Eleanor King, Avis Belt, jeanne
Leasure, Stratton Nicolson, Katherine
HRS, Louise Nagel, Ann Green and
Mary Henschall, will dance two num-
bers.
The guests will participate in the
grand march, with prizes offered for
the most beautiful, unusual and anus
ing costumes. The dancers will also
Join in polkas and the schottish.
Johnny Slaughter's Orchestra will pro-
vide the music.
Proceeds from the ball will 60 to
the fund for the 1898 Presidents Cup
Regatta. Tickets for the affair may
be obtained at the Mayfiower Hotel
the American Automobile Association
the Keystone Automobile Club. Mrs
Dorseys Ticket Bureau in Droop's
music store and at the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1938-03-27
AGENCIES WILL DISCUSS
RECENT HEALTH SURVEY

Representatives Of health and well
fare agencies in the District will hold
q meeting at the University Women's
Club Wednesday at 1890 pm to dis
d cuss recommendations of the recent
health survey of Washington.
DR.. Albert f. Russell, Assistant
Surgeon General of the United States
Public Health Service, will make the
first official presentation of the tuber-
culosis recommendations of the sur
vey.
Other talks will be made by Mrs.
Henry Grafton Dayle, president of
the Board of Education: DR.. James
G. Townsend, president of the Tuber-
culosis Association, and DR.. Numa
P. G. Adams, dean of the Howard
University School of Medicine.
Evening star., 1938-03-27
DR.. PAUL PEARSON,
EX-GOVERNOR, DIES
Former Virgin Islands Head
Was Writer'S Father and
Chautauqua Founder.

DR.. Paul Martin Pearson. 81, former
governor Of the Virgin Islands and
father Of Drew Pearson. Washington
newspaper columnist, died last night
in Stanford University Hospital in
San Francisco, where he had been i'll
nearly month from heart ailment
His wife and his daughter, Mrs. Cor
don Lange, were at his bedside.
As an executive of the United States
Housing Authority, DR.. Pearson had
been on the West Coast to spur pas
sage Of State housing law permitting
California to take advantage of the
Federal Housing Act. Twice before
housing bills had been passed by the
California Legislature. but were ve-
toed by Gov. Merriam. Despite this,
DR.. Pearson had persuaded him to call
a special session of the Legislature to
act on housing once again.
On March !. on the eve of the spe-
cial session, which subsequently passed
the necessary legislation, DR.. Pearson
suffered slight stroke. His illness
was not considered serious at first and
for time he kept in touch with the
legislative progress Of the housing bills
from his bedside They were signed
by Gov. Merriam shortly before DR..
PearSonS death.
A Chautauqua Founder.
DR.. Pearson was best known to thou
sands of small towns throughout the
United States as one OF the organizers
and executives of the chautauqua
movement. From 1912 to 1880. he
headed the SWarthmore Chautauqua
Association, which operated about
1000 chautauquas in the smaller
towns along the Atlantic Seaboard
from Canada to South Carolina. 1t
was on the Swarthmore Chautauqua
that William Jennings Bryan lectured
in 1918 and 1914 while Secretary of
State.
In 1881, DR.. Pearson was appointed
by President Hoover as the first
civilian governor of the Virgin Islands.
Simultaneously the islands were
transferred from the Navy to the
Interior Department.
AS governor of the islands, DR..
Pearson was responsible for the re-
construction program which has made
them relatively prosperous COM
munity. He organized the Virgin
Islands Co.. which took over the bank
rupt sugar industry Of the islands and
revived the production of St. Croix
rum. once famous throughout the
world.
He also introduced cultivation of
winter fruits and vegetables for sale
IN the American market. started
handicraft industries. built a govern
ment hotel and greatly improved the
tourist business of the islands.
Continued by Roosevelt.
Although appointed by a Republi-
can President, Dr. Pearson was con-
tinued by President Roosevelt. and
remained governor of the islands
longer than any previous American
executive. In the summer of 1885,
President Roosevelt appointed him
assistant director of housing, ana in
that capacity he played an important
part in the administration Slum-
clearance program until his death.
Dr.. Pearson was chairman of the
former Interdepartmental Committee
Evening star., 1938-03-27
Arkansas Assembly Closes.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 26 Up.
The Arkansas Legislature today
ended a l5-day special session. during
which bills were passed to remove
tolls from bridges, provide highway
construction funds, enable distressed
school districts to maintain eight
month terms and to start a 1000, 900
tuberculosis sanatoria expansion pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
Proposed Central Library
Should D,varf Present Unit
DR.. Bowermon Says Building Five
Times Size of That IL, Use Is Needed.
Modern Structures Cited.

The proposed new Central Build
ing OF the Washington Public Library
should be five times the size of the
existing Central Building.
DR.. George F. Bowerman, librarian,
yesterday made this comparison to
illustrate the present demand for
library service and the inadequate
facilities now available for rendering
that service.
Measurements of floor space in the
existing Central Building, DR.. Bower
man explained. show only 2,106 square
feet in the main lobby and only 1880
square feet in the reference room.
The fiction and sociology sections, he
said. approximate but LAO square
feet in each case, while the technology
division in the basement and the
children's room on the second floor
are limited to $3.50 square feet, re-
spectively.
For art and Washingtoniana to-
gether, the present Central Building
affords only 2,235 square feet; but
the librarian specified the music di-
vision as being the most definitely
handicaped-it has merely TIA square
feet Of elbow room.
N Daily Average 2,765.
THE average daily attendance at
the Central Building" DR.. Bowerman
declared, lis 2,765. During the rush
hours between $3.50 in the afternoon
and $50 in the evening, we serve
throngs of borrowers each of whom.
naturally enough, wants personal at
tention. The lack of sufficient terri
tory for easy and efficient movement
is manifest to any casual visitor. Even
the little service space we have Is
filled with desks. shelves, ETC., leaving
only narrow pathways for patrons.
1t is not uncommon for borrowers
to stand In line to have their books
checked at the registration counter"
In the projected new Central Build
ing, the librarian believes, modern fur
niture and equipment would help to
solve space problems. What WASH
ington needs" he insists, lis building
of the type recently constructed in
Baltimore, Rochester, Cleveland and
Los Angeles. In these up-to-date
plants, stacks closed to the public are
placed by open shelves. It no longer
is regarded as wise to have every
thing departmentalized. Rather, every
effort is made to bring readers into
contact with the books. The old pol
Evening star., 1938-10-23
CATHEDRAL PLANS
CHEST SERVICES.
Three Lay Speakers to Be
Heard at Rites Next
Sunday Niqht.

A special service Of prayer and
thanksgiving with three lay speakers
delivering addresses will be held In
Washington Cathedral next Sunday at
8 pm. as spiritual preparation for
the Community Chest campaign.
Col. William o. Tufts, former presi-
dent of the Washington Federation OF
Churches; Morris Cafritz, vice chair
man Of the Community Chest Cam
paign Committee, and Coleman Jen-
nings, president of the Chest and
member Of the Cathedral Council, will
be the speakers. The Right Rev.
James E. Freeman. Bishop of Wash
ington, will conduct the service.
Clergy from all local churches and
synagogues and the presidents of
Chest agencies have been invited to
march in the procession and occupy
seats in the Great Choir.
Robert George Barrow, organist and
choirmaster. will play the pipe organ
and the Cathedral choir of men and
boys will lead the congregation in
familiar hymns.
One of the purposes of the service,
according to Bishop Freeman, is to
give thanks for the aid given to the
Chest by the Washington clergy ever
since its organization.
Mrs. James L. Houghteling, wife of
the United States Commissioner OF
Immigration and Naturalization, will
serve with Alvin w. Hall as co-chair-
man Of the governmental unit of the
Chest campaign, William J. Flather,
jr., general campaign chairman, an
nounced today.
Mrs. Houghtelings father, Frederic
A. Delano, was one Of the original or
ganizers Of the Chest here and became
its first president. The newly ap-
pointed co-chairman will head the
special gifts solicitation IN the gov
ernmental unit.
Evening star., 1938-10-23

icy was to keep them as much sepa-
rated as possible"
DR.. Bowerman hopes that the new
Central Building will be four stories
high with basement and setback attic.
The old Central Building has but two
and half stories and is so over
crowded that the cataloguing, book
ordering and bookbinding divisions
have been forced out into quarters in
the former Ford Building in Pennsyl-
vania avenue
Bra inches Add to Burden.
Branch libraries, according to the
librarians experience, do not relieve
the strain on the headquarters Of the
library system. Instead" he argues,
they add to the amount Of business to
be done at the Central Building. The
borrowers who patronize the branches
are from IS to 80 per cent new appli-
cants."
DR.. BoWerman summarized his point
Of view in the statement: I'VE must
remember that the existing Central
Building was intended to serve q less
Evening star., 1938-10-23
FREE CHEST X-RAYS
TO BE CONTINUED
Senior High School Pupils to
Get Tests Through Aid of
Health Department.

Senior high school students in the
District again will receive free chest
X-ray service, in cooperation with the
Health Department and the Board of
Education, DR.. James G. Townsend,
president Of the District of Columbia
tuberculosis Association, announced
yesterday.
The service, which is. to begin No
vember Z, provides a check on possible
early infection with tuberculosis at a
stage when it can be cured.
DR.. Townsend also announced that
a similar X-ray service would be avail
able to the students of the parochial
senior high schools by arrangement
with the principals. The service of the
apparatus also will be made available
while in the schools to other young
men and women of the corresponding
age period from other groups.
DR.. A. Barklie Coulter, director of
'the Bureau of tuberculosis of the
Health Department, and DR.. Joseph
A. Murphy. chief medical inspector of
the public schools under the direction
of Dr. George c. Rutland health Off
GER, already have made preliminary ar
rangements for the X-ray examina-
tons. 1t was explained that While the
service is free, voluntary contributions
would be gratefully received to extend
the service to others.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
MEDICAL POLICIES
FIRM IS FORMED
disqualification, Doctors
Care Offered by New
Corporation.

Planning to offer insurance policies
covering medical care, disqualification,
both or either, Medical Hospital Fund,
Inc, has been incorporated under the
laws Of Maryland, licensed by j. Balch
Moor, District superintendent of insur-
ance, and plans to open Offices tomor-
row morning at TOO street NV.
This was announced by Comdr.
George w. Dalton, president Of the Or
ganization. Other officers are j.
Blaise de Sibour, vice president and
treasurer: John A. Selby, secretary,
and Reeve Hoover, another director.
The plan to provide funds for med
ical care and disqualification offered
by the new company is backed by pol
icies issued by the Century Indemnity
Co. of Hartford, with resources Of
more than s1o,O00,O0O, which is one
Of the Aetna Fire group. which has
total resources of over $70,000,000
Three Services Offered.
Under the plan, according to Comdr.
Dalton, three separate services are
being offered. Subscribers may choose
Cd hospital plan, providing maxi
mum of seven months care in hos
pital and payment for certain hospital
services; (2) medical plan with pay
ment for operations up to $3.50 and for
medical attention, including maternity
cases in hospital or home, and (3)
combined hospital and medical plan
consolidating the benefits offered un-
der the separate services.
Cost of the hospital plan alone is
$40 annually or $3.50 quarterly; Of
the medical plan alone, $12 annually
or SO quarterly, and of the combined
hospital and medical plan $40 annually
or SIS quarter. Payments may be
made monthly, quarterly or annually.
Emergency Expenses.
Reliable statistics indicate, Comdr.
Dalton said, that more than 35 per
cent of loans made at high rates of
interest here are for the purpose of
financing the emergency expenses of
illness and accident
Any one in good health, between
ages OF 16 and so may join, II was ex-
planned, but the plan will be available
only to groups of 10 or more. The
group is to arrange to have its en-
ployers or one of its members deduct
or collect the cost of services from
wages.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
UNION Meeting
Hotel Workers to Open Drive for
Members Tomorrow.

The Hotel and Restaurant Workers
International Alliance will hold mass
meeting to open an organizing drive
here at $50 pm. tomorrow at 429
Eleventh street NV.
In connection with the organizing
efforts speakers tomorrow will diS-
cuss local application OF the District
minimum wage law for women and
the Federal wage-and-hour law.
Evening star., 1938-10-23

populous city than Washington has
become in recent years. The growth
of the community has multiplied the
demand upon the library without
commensurately enlarging its power
to do the work required of it,"
The District Commissioners are con-
sidering an appeal from the library
Board of Trustees for the proposed
new Central Building. A site on the
north side of Pennsylvania avenue be-
tween Sixth street and John Marshall
place has been approved by Congress
and money for preliminary plans has
been authorized.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
Girl. 8. Has I. @. of l85.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. %
P).-Three-y -year-old Beverly Renae
Bercu. Salt Lake City, has an I. @. OF
l85. or genius rating, but can't 60 to
school. She's too young.
She has learned ballet dancing and
likes the company of grownups, lee
lures and Beethoven.
Evening star., 1938-10-23
Bartenders to Meet.

The bi-monthly meeting of the Bar
tenders Union. Old Local No. IS, will
be held at 6l0 Ninth street NV at
3 pm. today, Charles E. Sands, execu-
tive secretary, announced.
Evening star., 1938-10-23

Polar bears have been known to
travel from Greenland to Iceland on
ice drifts.
Evening star., 1938-10-23

Japanese usually eat their fish raw,
dipped in soya bean sauce.
Evening star., 1938-10-23

WE'D 50 YEARS-Mr. and Mrs.
William S. Sill of Washington,
who recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary.
The celebration was attended
by their children, Mrs. MarioYl
Grskurth, Mrs. Mabel Breen,
Louis Sill, Harold Sill, Norman
Sill, Mrs. Howard Bradbury,
Mrs. Vivian Quinn, and by the
couples 13 grandchildren and
friends.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19
HAIL IN GRANVILLE
is NOT SO SEVERE
Reports of Devastating Storm Mon
day Afternoon Exaggerated,
Reports Indicate

Reports here today were that dis
astrous hail storm swept the eastern
part of Granville county late Monday
doing great damage to crops, especial
ly tobacco. Efforts to confirm the
reports brought only the information,
however, that there had been some
hail, but that damage was slight, and
nothing like in proportion to reports.
It was said there was some hail in
the vicinity of Oxford. Stories heard
here were that the territory from
! tDeNter, near the Vance-Granville
line, was worst hit, extending back
into the eastern part Of Granville.
There have been number of storms
that brought with them hail damage
during the summer, but none has
amounted to a catastrophe even in an
widespread local area. Many farm
ers have hedged themselves against
such damage by providing hail, in
surance, and a large number who have
had such protection have escaped a
greater loss than they would other
wise have sustained.
The Economic Geyser Crater in
Yellowstone Park is inactive.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19
Suicides On
The Increase
In The State
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, July 19-There were more
suicides, and fewer homicides, in
North Carolina last month than in
any other monthly period during the
last two and a half years, June fig
ures of the Vital Statistics Division
reveal.
There were 81 suicides Ga mark
equalled only by February of this
wear and 10 homicides, the first time
there had been less than % in any
month during the period since June,
1856
No explanation for the sudden in
crease of suicides and decrease in
homicides has been offered-both in
cidents probably being just the sort
of happen-sos which mark any series
of statistics.
The falling off in homicides brought
the half year average to slightly less
than one a day, with total or l6z
since January 1. However, If the sec
ond half of the year comes up to the
corresponding periods of either 1897
or 1886, the killing-a day rate will still
hold good for this year. In the last
half of 1887 there were 2O4 North Car
DINA homicides, while in 1886 the
killing total stood at POI from July
through December.
Another angle of the suicide-hom-
icide figures for the first half Of this
year is that for the first time total
suicides exceeded homicides with
count of 1872 to 1872.
Suicides Of 1888 exceeded those Of
1887 by 10, while homicides dropped
six. In the first six months of 1886
there were 1863 homicides, just one
more than this year; but there were
only 1873 suicides, Al fewer than this
year.
Statistics on deaths are compare
lively meaningless unless figured
over a period of year, but the figures
for the past two and half years in
dictate that North Carolininas are kill
ing themselves and each other at
about two a day.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19

One hundred and twenty-five insane
persons were confined in "a North
Carolina jails during May, 1898.